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The House On Butterfly Way (2012)

by Elizabeth Bevarly(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0425245349 (ISBN13: 9780425245347)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Berkley Trade

review 1: I thought that it was either going to be more about fixing a house or about recovering a life, or falling in love. It wasn't really about any and all. I found the book hard to read because it was just so wordy. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love words. I love to read and I love books. I didn't love this book. It was okay. The story is about Eugenie who moves to Louisville and buys this monster of a house with her brother to live in it with her adolescent son and her mother. She is trying to make sense of the fact that her husband left her for someone who looks like Ethel Merman. She's trying to connect with her son. She connects with her old best friend, Marianne. She tries to connect with her mother who she resents for raising her in a way that did not let her... more be who she is. However, she has trouble identifying who she is and how she lost herself. At times in the book there are these obvious soliloquies. As a reader, I would rather feel it through the movement. There are stagnant dialogues. This book isn't so bad. I just find that it doesn't really reach me.
review 2: The ebook takes place in my homeyown of Louisville, KY and mentions many familiar places throughout the city which makes me love the book regardless but the story is also delightful. A single mother returns home to Louisville after devorsing in Indinapolis. She finds her dream house from her childhood for sale. She and her widowed brother buy it and begin to restore the house for his family, her and her son and their disabled Mother. But life also goes on with it's trials and tribulations. less

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