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

The story kept repeating itself and the characters didn't seem to grow even as we went through generations and--worst of all-- for some reason, we kept returning to violence against women in a very nonchalant way. Why do that as a female author? It didn't really move the plot along, just kind of felt desensitizing against that kind of violence. I had to stop reading when the third generation of woman got put into a situation like that.

I did like the magical realism aspect but perhaps this book had been too hyped up to me by people I trust for it to have lived up to that expectation.
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