Bradu reviews Del amor y otros demonios and in the process includes some similarities and differences between Del amor y otros demonios and El general en su laberinto. Bradu says that García Márquez has become the best imitator of himself; Del amor y otros demonios is a brief summary of rhetorical and identifiable figures that the reader could suspect to be a plagiarism if it weren't for its genius inventor. Del amor y otros demonios oscillates between fairy tale and a machiavellic version of the Colony.