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A review by sophie_hboff
The Fall of Butterflies by Andrea Portes
2.0
2 stars.
There were a lot of things I disliked about this book. Not gonna lie. It was a riveting enough novel to get me to read it, and it was interesting... but... well...
I found the writing style of this book to be kind of... I don't know. I mean, it was told as if Willa (the main character) was telling the reader the story. But it wasn't that that bothered me, at least not specifically that... It was mostly the character of Willa Parker, because as she wrote she seemed extremely judgmental, condescending and superior. Just read the first few pages... she described her classmates and gives them nicknames like "OCD", "Peanut Allergy Boy" and "Headgear Girl". It was a tragic attempt at being funny or hilarious, picking at people's flaws and the things they can't control, and it fell flat. Dangerously flat. I was definitely considering dropping the book when I read that, but some part of me decided to continue reading, because I believed at the time it could get better.
Willa talks about wanting to kill herself a bunch of times, but we never found out why, and it was kind of thrown around in a way that seemed like it wasn't important-- not to the reader, but it seemed as if the author was using it as a way to propel the plot, or make you feel interested in what was going to happen. But the plot wasn't impacted in any way because of this, and Willa never explains to us why she's feeling this way, and it's only brought up a few times and many times throughout the book it's forgotten.
And the whole thing between Willa and Remy... I thought there was going to be a romance between them, there most definitely was not (major disappointment in my opinion). Instead, a dull, snobby rich character named Milo comes in as the love-interest.
Simply put: there wasn't any point to this book. It was about a miserable pretentious, patronizing girl and a rampant, manipulating brat, and although it was an easy read, fun to read at times, there was no point to the story, no resolve to tie the book together, no great plot twist, no moral to the story. Nothing.
There were a lot of things I disliked about this book. Not gonna lie. It was a riveting enough novel to get me to read it, and it was interesting... but... well...
I found the writing style of this book to be kind of... I don't know. I mean, it was told as if Willa (the main character) was telling the reader the story. But it wasn't that that bothered me, at least not specifically that... It was mostly the character of Willa Parker, because as she wrote she seemed extremely judgmental, condescending and superior. Just read the first few pages... she described her classmates and gives them nicknames like "OCD", "Peanut Allergy Boy" and "Headgear Girl". It was a tragic attempt at being funny or hilarious, picking at people's flaws and the things they can't control, and it fell flat. Dangerously flat. I was definitely considering dropping the book when I read that, but some part of me decided to continue reading, because I believed at the time it could get better.
Willa talks about wanting to kill herself a bunch of times, but we never found out why, and it was kind of thrown around in a way that seemed like it wasn't important-- not to the reader, but it seemed as if the author was using it as a way to propel the plot, or make you feel interested in what was going to happen. But the plot wasn't impacted in any way because of this, and Willa never explains to us why she's feeling this way, and it's only brought up a few times and many times throughout the book it's forgotten.
And the whole thing between Willa and Remy... I thought there was going to be a romance between them, there most definitely was not (major disappointment in my opinion). Instead, a dull, snobby rich character named Milo comes in as the love-interest.
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and for mere seconds you believe that there might be a spark between them... but then he goes around and treats her like absolute crap. I hated that. He was pointless. He was stupid. He was pathetic.Simply put: there wasn't any point to this book. It was about a miserable pretentious, patronizing girl and a rampant, manipulating brat, and although it was an easy read, fun to read at times, there was no point to the story, no resolve to tie the book together, no great plot twist, no moral to the story. Nothing.