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3.5 stars
Confession time! I was cleaning this weekend and came across this book. A book that I thought I had finished reading, but I found a bookmark where I had obviously stopped.
A proper re-read for 2018 was warranted!
The best way to describe Isabel Allende is that she's both poet and painter. Just like a poet, Allende wants her readers to be seduced by all five senses. Like, a painter, Allende makes sure that her readers; with their eyes open or shut are transported back to the time period she's writing about. In this case, Chile and California in the span of years between 1843-1853. That might seem like a short period of time, but remember, there's lots of detail.
Perhaps the biggest gem of Allende's work is that she writes strong women and she puts her women in precarious situations and sees what they will do about them. Both Miss Rose and Eliza are women who both try to overcome the obstacles of their birth. The only drawback of the story was that it just ended without feeling like the end.