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A review by misshappyapples
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
4.0
This was my first Isabel Allende and it was assigned for my book club. I'm not saying that I wouldn't have gotten around to reading her at some point but this did fit into that goal, and also a 2018 goal of mine to read a book by an author from every South American country. That checks Chile off the list.
I found this book to be pretty dense. It's only 300 pages and yet I felt like every page took ten minutes to read. It was discouraging at points. But I did truly enjoy this tale of Aurora del Valle and her two extraordinary grandmothers. Her tale from childhood trauma, to marriage, separation, and eventually discovering the long buried secrets of her past was very appealing. This is Aurora's story, but it's really a family epic. It could have easily felt too soap opera-ish but didn't to me. Probably due to the beautiful writing and the quality of the characterizations.
I found this book to be pretty dense. It's only 300 pages and yet I felt like every page took ten minutes to read. It was discouraging at points. But I did truly enjoy this tale of Aurora del Valle and her two extraordinary grandmothers. Her tale from childhood trauma, to marriage, separation, and eventually discovering the long buried secrets of her past was very appealing. This is Aurora's story, but it's really a family epic. It could have easily felt too soap opera-ish but didn't to me. Probably due to the beautiful writing and the quality of the characterizations.