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Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende

3.0

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Sometimes you just want a good romping historical fiction novel. This was an intensely interesting adaptation of the life of Inés Suárez, a Spanish woman who immigrated to the New World (Central and then South America). She became the mistress of Pedro de Valdivia, and helped him "conquer" Chile. She later married Rodrigo de Quiroga, one of Valdviia's captains. Of course, this meant a lot of ensuing romance and adventure. The story of the colonization of Chile and Peru (and her comments on the rest of the colonization) were extremely interesting though, of course, bloody and brutal. The book meandered a bit, and some of the bloody brutality went on for too long, but it was still an interesting and entertaining summer read.