A review by mjoyced
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende

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.