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“My review from the Rory Gilmore Book Club: (may contain spoilers) "I finished about a week ago and have been trying to wrap my head around the story and what I want to say. I definitely liked it a lot - though I wouldn't say I loved it. I found it very hard to get into at first. Description seems to weigh down the narrative in a way that I had a hard time getting used to. Too much to take in at once. But, I did finally find a rhythm to the words and to the beautiful stories and ended up really liking it. I agree that most of Eva's life was probably made up by the narrator. You have to wonder - when trusting or not trusting the narrator, one is assuming the narrator is real and the author doesn't exist. But if you look outside of that, you have to wonder, did Allende have to know Eva's real life before she imagined her the one in the novel? Just like Eva does for Rolfe. She learns from him the truth of his life and then invents him a new reality. Just as the woman in her story, who weaves her true life with the one of the soldier so that they can no longer part - the woman knows his true life and invents him a new reality. What does Allende really know about Eva that she leaves out of the story? Is it possible to figure this out for ourselves? The book also seemed to run a very incestuous theme. Now, after writing what I wrote above, I wonder if her wonderful relationships with Riad and Huberto were ways to make any sexual abuse she received in her youth from any parent or sibling easier for her to bear? Is it a possibility that her father didn't die before she was born? Her way, she is the product of a great love and a tragic ending. Just throwing some things out there. I did find it strange that she looks to Riad as a father for so many years, takes him as a lover (that he would take her is also beyond me) and then later is able to look at him as a father again. Same for Huberto. They are lovers, but in the end they are brother and sister again, as they always should have been. " To join the discussion, join the Rory Gilmore Book Club: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10389/discussions/34791/Everybody-ready-Eva-Luna-discussion-potential-spoiler-warning”
HemingwayHeroine wrote this review Sunday, March 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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