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Butterfly (2010)

by Sonya Hartnett(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0763647608 (ISBN13: 9780763647605)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: This is a story about Plum, a girl in the verge of fourteen years old, and coming to terms with life as it is, not as she wishes it would be. It is well written, though sometimes slow moving, as there is not much that happens. And yet, you feel that you come to know the characters intimately in a short space of time. It is a great portrait of three siblings as they navigate the waters of their unfamiliar lives.
review 2: This is my first tast of Sonya Hartnett's talents, and while I wasn't knocked-out-wowed, I was certainly impressed with the opening and scene setting. (As I get older I'm certainly loving books set in 80's suburban Australia.) Hartnett's strengths, in this book at least, are descriptive and emotional - the details (Cydar's fish tanks, the smell... mores and plant life of summer in suburbia) are wonderful, but she tries to squeeze in a whole other story about pubescent girls and the horror of school, and while this is a worthy subject, it seems to get a bit of short shrift in 'Butterfly'. It seems as though it should be either a much longer work that continues into Plum's out of high school years, or just an evocative short story, but falls between the two and is just slightly disappointing. Definetly worth a read, but feel that Hartnett has much bigger tricks awaiting. less

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