I‘ve heard such great things about this, and I‘m sorry I didn‘t like it better but the story was basically meh (trite, perhaps?) and the dialogue was awful. However, the author is a wildlife scientist who has written bestsellers on those topics and when writing about the natural world, for example, the mating habits of fireflies, the writing sings.
If this hadn‘t been a group pick, I might not have finished. And would have missed the fireflies.

It‘s been too long since I‘ve read Allende and she‘s one of my favorites so this is tonight‘s bedtime reading. Sweet dreams!