A review by myjourneywithbooks
The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley
3.0
When a story seems to rely heavily on mysterious secrets that are constantly hinted at but aren't revealed till the end, does that tend to annoy you or does it make you enjoy it more?
The Butterfly Room boasts of two such secrets in the story and I have to admit, if it wasn't for that I probably would have left the book unfinished halfway through. That's not to say it was a terrible story or terribly written. But everything about it was just average to me.
The book starts with Posy as a young child living in her enormous family home Admiral House during World War 2, just having seen her father off as he leaves to rejoin the battlefront. The story alternates with the timeline in the present where Posy is now nearly seventy years old and back at Admiral House, eagerly awaiting the return of her beloved son Nick. Struggling to maintain her huge childhood home, Posy is in the process of making the agonizing decision to sell it when Freddie, a flame from the past, turns up and brings with him some old memories.
Both Freddie and Nick harbour some of the aforementioned mysterious secrets and throughout the story these kept being hinted at. Nick's secret was quite obvious to me though Freddie's kept me guessing. The air of mystery was exciting at first but it did get a little old after a while and I felt like telling the author to just spit it out
The Butterfly Room boasts of two such secrets in the story and I have to admit, if it wasn't for that I probably would have left the book unfinished halfway through. That's not to say it was a terrible story or terribly written. But everything about it was just average to me.
The book starts with Posy as a young child living in her enormous family home Admiral House during World War 2, just having seen her father off as he leaves to rejoin the battlefront. The story alternates with the timeline in the present where Posy is now nearly seventy years old and back at Admiral House, eagerly awaiting the return of her beloved son Nick. Struggling to maintain her huge childhood home, Posy is in the process of making the agonizing decision to sell it when Freddie, a flame from the past, turns up and brings with him some old memories.
Both Freddie and Nick harbour some of the aforementioned mysterious secrets and throughout the story these kept being hinted at. Nick's secret was quite obvious to me though Freddie's kept me guessing. The air of mystery was exciting at first but it did get a little old after a while and I felt like telling the author to just spit it out