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Inés dell'anima mia by Isabel Allende, Elena Liverani

pennylane1986's review against another edition

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5.0

Tremendo libro, por momentos cruel y violento, por momentos de una ternura y una ironía increíbles. ¡Me encantó!

saranies's review against another edition

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2.0

Eh. I read to the end because I was too lazy to look up on wikipedia what happened to the characters, but this was actually a pretty boring book. I couldn't be bothered to care about any of the characters, and Ines seemed smug and underdeveloped.

mshaniak's review against another edition

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4.0

Interesting story

mtownreads's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

3.25

eevadominguez's review against another edition

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adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

mjoyced's review against another edition

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4.0

Ines Suarez was an amazing woman and it's no wonder her life makes for incredible historical fiction. I would recommend this to anyone interested in American history. Ines' life and achievements are really not to be missed. Allende's descriptive style of writing drew me into the incredible places Ines experiences. The fictional memoir style is not my favorite, but it does allow the reader to get a sense of the kind of remembered inconsistencies that many of the memoirs and biographies of the Spanish colonizers include. I was hesitant reading a novel from the conquerer's perspective, but Allende does pay tribute to the civilizations that Ines encounters and shows that relations between tribes and races were more complicated than just Spanish and Native Americans.

yulissag's review against another edition

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5.0

Como que no puedo poner en palabras todo lo que este libro me hizo sentir.

De verdad que Isabel Allende es la raja, sentí que fui parte de cada una de las cosas que pasaron.

Me da mucha penita pensar en todo lo que pasó en esa época y me impresiona como los españoles realmente creían que hacían un bien con la conquista cuando en realidad, en el fondo, era todo lo contrario.

Igual, es lindo leer una parte de la historia de Chile, sobre todo de como empezó Santiago, siento que uno generalmente no está consciente de todo lo que pasó y como hay que aprender de eso idk siento que da mucho para reflexionar.

Por otro lado, puta que admiración por todos los involucrados, sobre todo por los mapuches, no me puedo imaginar yo viviendo algo así weon la cagó. Aunque igual, quitando todo lo horrible, igual encuentro admirables la resilencia y la valentía de los españoles. Y de Inés Suaréz puta que mujer más aperrada, con todo lo que hizo, debería hablarse mucho más de ella y merece mucho más reconocimiento. Aunque no me sorprende, es super común que no se reconozca el aporte de las mujeres, aun cuando son una parte CRUCIAL.

avalonkin's review against another edition

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adventurous informative medium-paced

4.5

pofrancisco's review against another edition

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4.0

4.5

itsgoodtobea's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75