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Happy pub day to this marvelous historical fiction 🥳🍾🎈

Since I’ve read House of Spirits I became a true fan of this brilliant author and her well written, mind spinning historical novels with magical realism vibes and realistic chapters based on true events.

Violeta is another heartfelt, intense story, taking us a long journey which lasts 100 years: giving a mind blowing, sentimental, heartbreaking, compelling life story of Violeta Del Valle. It’s focused on a woman’s lifetime in South America: how her challenging experiences, her relationship with her own family, her surroundings shaped her and recreated her.

The story is told by the letters written to her grandson, starting from 1920’s to the present time, giving photographic, realistic descriptions about the places, cultures, traditions, customs so impeccably. You truly feel like you are transported to another time line, another continent, country, city and you may visualize everything the author tell you from her vivid, detailed, colorful perspective.

Violeta comes to earth as the first daughter of a family of five very animated sons. It’s an epic history lesson giving snippets from very effective events shaped the future lives of humanity including Great War, Spanish Flu and Great Depression.
We observe the loves, losses, beliefs, family dynamics, dreams of a woman in 10 decades.

It was heart wrenching, filled with complex emotions and well developed time travel you shouldn’t dare to miss as like any other great Allende novels!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group/ Ballantine Books for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.