A review by brynne414
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Admittedly, setting the scene for the first 100 pages lost my interest a bit and I did end up taking a short break from the book because of it, but man am I glad I kept going. The book immediately took off into a vivid buildup of each characters personalities and the events of the book become much more successive. I quickly became immersed in this book, gripping on to Allende’s writing that while already extremely vivid and luring, was greatly complimented by the fantastical quality of the Trueba house. I also very much loved how intimate this book felt. Aside from the family and families close friends, you don’t get much sense of a surrounding public or a bustling city until near the end. The intimate focus on the Trueba family and the house gives this book a feeling of comfortable solace. Aside, I just have a huge interest in historical fiction and Marxism in Latin America, so this book hit the target pretty well