Allende's House of Spirits: My Favourite Book

Although reading is not one of my many joys in life when I do read I tend to really enjoy novels with mystery and suspense but not too much to were the book becomes almost impossible to figure out. 

While in my last year of high School I attended an International Baccalaureate English course manly focusing on Literature. One book which I really enjoyed was “The House of Spirits” by Isabel Allende.  It is a book of mystery and suspense portraying the clash of two families whose class, culture and religion keep them apart.  It is mysterious in the way that characters in the book are thought to have magical psychic powers and the ability to see the dead. 

I really enjoyed reading this book because it had a certain style to it. Isabel Allende writes in a way not where you read and find it almost impossible to understand it but in a way where it keeps you focused and wanting to read on.  It’s almost like you are there and want to see what is going to happen next.  Allende use of description such as the suspense of some one raping his peasant workers and also beat his child and wife.  This interest me because Allende style of writing make your imagination go wild and makes you feel like you are there as it happens which gives you the will to want to read on. 

To conclude, “The house of Spirits” by Isabel Allende has become one my favorite books because the style in which Allende writes and the ability which she has to be able to make a reader become one with the book.  That is my reason on why I think this book has been such a joy to read because my enjoyment of mystery is caught by the authors style of writing.