Review of 'Something Fierce Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Daughter' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
felt out of my depth for most of this memoir. here is a teen that joins her mother's underground fight against Pinochet and I know very little about South American politics. and it wasn't like it's just Chile I'm ignorant about. she lives in Bolivia and Peru and Argentina and all their leaders are mentioned. AND when she is a teen, it's quite vague what her parents are even doing as rebels. about 2/3rd through she herself becomes an adult and takes the oath of a revolutionary. then she writes with authority - smuggling what appears to be arms, procuring fake documents, flying supplies over the Andes to rebels in Chile. that's when the story finally got my interest.
but too little, too late. I found this mostly a chore to get through (and as an aside, her writing style annoyed me after awhile: heavily relying on the tactic of …
felt out of my depth for most of this memoir. here is a teen that joins her mother's underground fight against Pinochet and I know very little about South American politics. and it wasn't like it's just Chile I'm ignorant about. she lives in Bolivia and Peru and Argentina and all their leaders are mentioned. AND when she is a teen, it's quite vague what her parents are even doing as rebels. about 2/3rd through she herself becomes an adult and takes the oath of a revolutionary. then she writes with authority - smuggling what appears to be arms, procuring fake documents, flying supplies over the Andes to rebels in Chile. that's when the story finally got my interest.
but too little, too late. I found this mostly a chore to get through (and as an aside, her writing style annoyed me after awhile: heavily relying on the tactic of starting the story in progress and then backtracking to fill in all the details. it's how lots of long magazine articles suck you in, but overused - and in a novel - it got old quick)