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The Glass Butterfly (2012)

by Louise Marley(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0758265689 (ISBN13: 9780758265685)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Kensington

review 1: There's a special delight in picking up a new Louise Marley novel, akin to expecting the unexpected. Who else could write about Mozart's musical genius transmitted by a vampire's bite, or time travel to discover the mystery of Clara Schumann's passionate romance with Brahms? Music, as the jaded, time-worn vampires in Mozart's Blood know all too well, is the one joy that transcends the years, perhaps because it cannot exist outside of time.Music, particularly the glorious operas of Puccini, is an abiding love of Victoria Lake, and the one thing she must renounce if her identity is to remain hidden as she goes on the run from a psychopathic killer. But music cannot be extricated from the soul, and Puccini's own life -- as seen through a servant girl -- soon begins unfolding ... morein Victoria's dreams. It's never entirely clear whether this is a purely psychological phenomenon or whether there is some fantastical element, some bond or message across time. Are the lives of the two women parallel in the deadly risks they each face? Does music have the magical power to cross time as well as space? Or is this all happening in the highly-stressed mind of a woman who has already survived one attempted murder? It doesn't matter, because the metaphors and images and emotional responses are real, no matter how them come to us. Bottom line: an extraordinary book by a master storyteller. If you don't already love Puccini's operas, you will.
review 2: This was a book I won from goodreads.. When looking into this book, I thought it sounded like a book I could really get into. When starting to read the book I kind of changed my mind. Louise Marley does a good job of building charaters, but I was kind of confused why there were some many POV for the book. I think I started to get confused by this book in chapter 4. There was an abrupt change of charaters and scenery with out any lead up to it. Through out the book I didn't fully understand why the need for the flash backs, or the extra characters. It was a good book but I feel there was some extra things that weren't needed. I will recommend this book to some friends may be interested in something like this, but for me was hard to follow and completely understand. Maybe if I read the book a second time (probably won't be for a while though) it might be easier for me to get the plot. less

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