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It took me two weeks to finish this amazing piece of art. However I enjoyed every page of it. A must read.
I wanted to love this more than I did. It's a fictional character's memoir, but even so, a memoir, fictional or not, should have a sense of plot arc. The first half of the book was compelling, but the second half was kind of flat - this happened, then this happened. The ending seemed like it was supposed to be climactic, but most of it I'd figured out a couple hundred pages earlier. A little disappointing.
Portrait in Sepia is Isabel Allende's middle book in a trilogy linking Daughter of Fortune to House of the Spirits. Sepia is the memoir of Aurora (Lai Ming) Del Valle, the granddaughter of both Paulina Del Valle and Eliza Sommers. The bulk of the story begins when Aurora is five years old, and Eliza Sommers, recently widowed, has decided to give Aurora to Paulina Del Valle to raise. Paulina ecstatic at finally having a girl to pamper agrees on the condition that Eliza no longer contacts the girl...
Isabel Allende's, "Portrait in Sepia," is an absolutely wonderful sequel to her, "Daughter of Fortune."Like its predecessor, it is over the top with fantastic characters, the writing is sublime, and I have learned more about the history of Chile and San Francisco than I ever imagined possible. Ms. Allende is a major talent.
“only passionate people make interesting characters. Nice people with common sense only make good former spouses”. Keeping that in mind, i usually have high expectations to see rebels, outlaws, eccentrics in Allende’s novels. Much to my disappointment, she fed me with a horde of former spouses. That story kicks off with a character that belongs to the type i hate the most: a teenage girl incredibly beautiful but also endowed with a less than peanut-sized brain who didn’t do anything but daydream...
3.5 starsThe sequel to Allende’s Daughter of Fortune is well worth your time picking up if you enjoyed the first one, but I did think Portrait in Sepia was a bit lacklustre in comparison to its predecessor. There wasn’t the same amount of passion and vibrancy leaping off the page, but as it’s Allende you can be sure that there is still SOME passion!.She is such a natural storyteller that I always can’t help but devour her books in a day or two. She weaves her stories so well that everything feel...
3.5 stars. One thing is for sure, tha Isabel Allende is one of the best writers I've come across, but necessarily not my favorite. She writes stories and characters with such a skill and its easy getting hooked on her book. However this wasn't one my favorites from her. Still good but not as good as her others. I've been thinking and wondering what "thick satanic eyebrows" looks like. I have never seen nor heard eyebrows been discribed like that before and have have a difficult time picturing it...
I love Isabel Allende's writing: I read Daughter of Fortune and House of the Spirits, and found this one good but not quite up to the quality of the other two; lacking a distinct plot of its own, it mainly serves to tie the other two (standalone) books together. Still, it was an enjoyable book: Allende's character development and writing style are excellent as always, and I'm in the camp that loves to use fiction as a way to learn about the history of other countries, which this one certainly pr...
I read Daughter of Fortune at some point last year and found it very enjoyable. This book is sort of the sequel to it, although it really follows a different generation of the same family. We do get to wrap up the "ever after" story from the previous book, though it's not until the very end of this one. I did not find this book to be as entertaining as its predecessor. I can't pinpoint what exactly I didn't like about it, except that it felt sort of rushed, like Allende was trying to get too man...
During the Covid-19 pandemic my local library has closed. As I result I have been rereading books I already own and Portrait in Sepia is one of them. I have actually upped the rating from 3 to 4 stars. This is because the first time I read it I did not realize it was part of a trilogy. I'd already read House of the Spirits decades before and Daughter of Fortune maybe 5 years before. At the time I did not make the connection and the story alone felt incomplete. House of the Spirits is definitely
Read this book because I will be traveling to Chilé in April and am attempting to educate myself. Am somewhat familiar with Allende's writing and am looking forward to seeing her when she comes to Buffalo in April....but this book...: skip it.It just doesn't work. I can't even accuse the author of trying too hard. I don't think she had her heart in it. The characterization was inconsistent and I found this very confusing. She would flesh someone out in a particular manner (colorful and bold)and
Mostly the story of the granddaughter of the main characters in Daughter of Fortune
My second book to read from this author. I enjoyed revisiting some of the same characters from Daughter of Fortune. The characters in her books never have easy lives, but I guess none of us do. I have learned a lot about Chile from reading her novels.
I loved the powerful story! Fulled of powerful women characters and the writing is a delight. It was my first book of the author. I will read more from her
