I thought this book was very well researched, the author stayed within the rigid historical timeline while telling a fictional story

The mash up of a Mexican western, a generational saga, and magical realism works extremely well at the hands of this talented author.

1794: The City Between the Bridges is a dark, brutal story is unrelenting, but difficult to stop reading which is a testament to the excellent translation

I fully realized I was being manipulated, and yet I couldn’t stop reading. The historical detail paired with engaging characters made the novel appealing

I found the book quite boring in the beginning, but the story got better when the narrative was moved from San Francisco to Chile

The author’s talent shines through, there are great passages here and there, but I had to trudge through hundreds of pages to find them.

A fascinating, well researched, and very ambitious effort. The story captures the immense wealth, of Babylon a long with world building grounded in history.

In Inés of My Soul, author Isabel Allende captured her spirit, and also told of the foundation of Chile in a fascinating and entertaining manner

The Rail Splitter is expertly researched, books like this should be the standard for historical fiction. One could learn a lot from books like this

Ms. Allende focuses on children, and how policies of cruelty use them as pawns. Only the fact that good people have attempted to help them save those children