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A review by anca_m
De amor y de sombra by Isabel Allende
2.0
Nothing I wasn't expecting.
I must confess, though, it annoyed me the similarity to The House of Spirits. Isabel Allende's style is predictible, she tries to 'hook' you, to pull you in the story. I don't know about others, but she just couldn't do it with me. :) I was permanently noticing her style, habit of describing everything to the little detail [annoying and useless, if you ask me], reducing to characters to one, two presentations that say no-thing!-it just puts them in category-bleah!; then, she lets them grow, and they grow teribly in this one:D. Of course the main characters are good-looking, hot and have that attractive South-American beauty; of course they are interested in politics and fight for freedom and democracy with the cost of their lives. rrrright. I think Allende has 'a thing' for politics in the country-again, the name isn't mentioned-better this way..
Oh, and the action is so fast, things happen, minor habits are all described, usual 'picture in picture' techinque. blahblah, that pisses me off.
I don't think I want to read anything else written by her.
I must confess, though, it annoyed me the similarity to The House of Spirits. Isabel Allende's style is predictible, she tries to 'hook' you, to pull you in the story. I don't know about others, but she just couldn't do it with me. :) I was permanently noticing her style, habit of describing everything to the little detail [annoying and useless, if you ask me], reducing to characters to one, two presentations that say no-thing!-it just puts them in category-bleah!; then, she lets them grow, and they grow teribly in this one:D. Of course the main characters are good-looking, hot and have that attractive South-American beauty; of course they are interested in politics and fight for freedom and democracy with the cost of their lives. rrrright. I think Allende has 'a thing' for politics in the country-again, the name isn't mentioned-better this way..
Oh, and the action is so fast, things happen, minor habits are all described, usual 'picture in picture' techinque. blahblah, that pisses me off.
I don't think I want to read anything else written by her.