The Fall of Butterflies

This review was done by KissinBlueKarenThis was such a fun book about a girl going to an ivy league high school across the country from her actual home Willa s mother is famous for her brain and her father is just a regular guy Of course she grew up with her dad and hasn t seen her mother in years, but that doesn t stop her mother from trying to dictate her academically Willa agrees to attend Pembroke Prep, there she meets a girl who will change her life Remy is the sort of girl everyone wants t [...]

Source I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read to review basis Thanks to HarperCollins and Edelweiss It s a bathtub A haunted bathtub This was a YA contemporary story, about a girl at boarding school and illegal drugs.Willa was an okay character, although she was maybe a bit of a follower The way she kept going on about her haunted bathtub was quite annoying though.The storyline in this was about Willa going to a new school, freaking out over her haunted bathroom which she woul [...]

Received the ARC from a giveaway.DNF at page 16.Look, I don t like not finishing books I haven t DNF d a book before, and seeing this on my read section but not being completely read will tick me off one day I ll probably power through this soon just to cease the anxiety, or give it away so I don t have to see it on the shelf at all.This was the most insufferable 15 pages I ve ever read I don t think I ve ever hated a main character as much as this, even in such a short timespan with massive ass [...]

I like the story butA light read and definitely good one but not good enough for me to give five stars Giving it three because it doesn t suit me well Some parts I felt it was dragging and to be honest I was hoping for a better ending There wasn t much a climax and a resolution, not to mention my ship sailed I got this feeling that there wasn t any closure at all.What I like about the story is its loyalty to the story line and it s about and finding yourelf The humor added is absolutely grea And [...]

The Fall of Butterflies is a standalone contemporary Young Adult book This is my first book by this author.The narrator is 16 year old Willa from Iowa She is leaving home to go to Pembroke Boarding School on the East Coast.The writing style is very odd The narrator talks to the reader.I didn t really connect with a lot of the characters in this book Many of the kids that go to this school are rich and snobby They basically don t even have to attend classes if they don t feel like it I was not ex [...]

Warning This book contains omigawd she didn t spectacle, and the other half is pretty familiar not to mention inconsistent.

Why is it always harder to write reviews about books you truly love Nevertheless, I have to try Because, you guys, The Fall of Butterflies is magnificent And I encourage everyone in the world to run yes, run to the nearest bookstore and yes, brick and mortar bookstore and purchase a copy of this masterpiece It will make you cry, it will make you laugh over and over again, it will make you feel understood It will make you feel And isn t that why we all read Why we all live Willa is the character [...]

3.5 starsThere are lots of problems people have in the world Many of them are different from certain groups or individuals But the problem here in this book is Rich People Problems.The Fall of Butterflies isn t necessarily about rich people problems It s still there, but it also focuses on Willa and her journey from being a girl from Iowa to attending an elite school and making friends with Remy To me, this was a good book It wasn t a book that took me by surprise The best way I can describe thi [...]

About 3.5 stars just because I had to put this book down and start over at a later date.Full disclosure I m definitely not the target demographic for this book However, I do have teenage nieces who may or may not be interested in this bookWhen I first started reading The Fall of Butterflies, I was a little bored Same old story, teenage girl with an absentee parental unit plotting her own demise I ll admit it, I put the book down for a bit and went on with my business I picked up the book about a [...]

I m finding it so hard to rate this book I found so many elements of myself within the main character that I m literally sitting here tossing between giving this book either a 3 or 4 I enjoyed the POV, the characters, the refreshing plot, the way the author talked about friendship I just, this book was beautiful in so many ways yet did also have some excruciating flaws expect a full review soon I need to reflect on everything that just happened, holy crap.

See this review and on my blog, LilybloombooksThe Fall of Butterflies was a new to me book that I had not seen much of before requesting it for review on audio I ve been in a contemporary mood, and this was the perfect book to satisfy my new habit of mood reading.I loved the writing It s told in the second person, with Willa narrating to you as the reader It was a fun and unique was to be pulled into the story, especially given the state of mind that Willa was in at the beginning of the story I [...]

DNF 20% I justn t I can t get through all the wordiness and redundancy I would guess that if the author actually cut out what wasn t needed and got to the point, this book would be a short story or short novella Like, seriously I still have no idea where this book was going because of all the little side notes and reminders about things the narrator had already mentioned like twenty times Ugh and now I have a headache from it all.

WAY better than anatomy of a misfit.I guess I could relate to Willa, and that s what made this book so interesting to me Nothing special here I guess it s one of those books where if u can relate you ll enjoy it If I can t then u won t.

Yet another book that started out with such potential but failed to deliver.Full review can be found here agingerlyreview.wordpressThis is yet another debut novel that was a huge disappointment I picked it up because I wanted to try to read outside of my normal genre and it bothers me that these books are not living up to my low expectations.This is the story of Willa and Remy, two girls who become amazing friends while at an ivy league high school Willa has a mother that is famous for her brain [...]

Huge thank you to HarperCollins for sending me an ARC for review I was NOT expecting to love this book as much as I did I started reading it because I was in the mood for something contemporary and I remembered really enjoying Portes previous YA title I got SUCKED into this book and read almost 200 pages in one sitting I was expecting a typical small town girl goes to expensive prep school and gets sucked into a new, exciting world, story butttttt this took an unexpected dark turn And I loved it [...]

Willa leaves What Cheer, Iowa at the insistence of mother and goes to boarding school She has already figured out she ll never return, because Willa is planning to commit suicide On her first day at school, she meets Remy, the toughest girl she has ever seen Everyone wants to be Remy s friend because she s Remy Taft, relative of the president Remy finds Willa refreshing and decides that she can be her best friend.In the beginning I was excited Willa tells the story directly to you, the reader, a [...]

Kept reading this one because I wanted to know if Willa survives She mentions wanting to commit suicide at the beginning of the book, and it is also mentioned a couple of other times, almost in a joking, light hearted way Not a topic that I find funny.This is definitely young adult, with a roommate having an affair with a teacher, and a liberal use of f bombs Will definitely pass.

I received an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.I have to laugh at myself My first impression of this book was bad, but then as I got further and further into it, I slowly warmed up to it and started really liking it, though it still wasn t proving to be a great book Then the ending blew me away and left me on that sort of happy cloud that I get to visit after reading really good books A happy reading cloud Is that what I should call it I went from almost DNFing this to be [...]

This was an ok read, I enjoyed it but didn t really connect with the characters or the story I actually kept waiting for Remy and Miles to turn out to be fairies but when I was half way through I realised it wasn t going to happen and they were just regular people I did like the message at the end and was glad Willa could make some decisions for herself.

The Fall of Butterflies gorgeous cover with a story that doesn t really mention real butterflies So we have Willa from What Cheer, Iowa who has an awesome single dad and a strict famous economist mom that judges her life from a distance She gets sent to Pembroke, an all girls boarding school, where she thinks she won t fit in until she meets the colorful, popular Remy Remy introduces her to a fast and fun way of life, and Willa thinks everything is going just fineuntil she learns that Remy s ric [...]

After I read Portes s first novel, I wasn t impressed Honestly, The Fall of Butterflies wasn t that much better, but it was still an improvement A four sentence summary Willa leaves What Cheer, Iowa to attend the prestigious Pembroke Prep Willa befriends the mysterious, quirky, school rebel Remy Taft Willa and Remy get into trouble and do lots of drugs together The end.Characters I disliked every character in this book I actually don t even think we were supposed to feel sympathetic towards them [...]

Ich wusste nicht wirklich, was ich von dem Buch zu erwarten hatte Kennt ihr das Ihr lest den Klappentext und denkt worum genau soll es da jetzt gehen So war das hier auch Eine Weile dachte ich, es geht um Willas Familie Dann, dass das Buch eine LGBT Wende nimmt Am Ende war die Story aber doch ganz anders, als ich mir erhofft hatte nicht schlecht, aber auch nicht wirklich berzeugend Anatomy Of A Misfit war damals ein mega Gl cksgriff f r mich, weil ich das Buch der Autorin klasse fand Da stand fe [...]

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 wellI 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 super [...]

Willa Parker whose name you don t know until Chapter 5 has decided to leave her cafeteria table of gentle misfits and go to boarding school Though she hasn t spoken to her mother in a long while, she knew her mom could pull the appropriate strings and get her in the ultra exclusive Pembroke Prep An all girls school on the east coast, it s a long train ride away from her loving and encouraging father in What Cheer, Iowa She doesn t plan on staying there very long, and in that end, is encouraged t [...]

In the book The Fall of Butterflies by Andrea Portes, the author s writing style is fun and informal The book is written in first person, while occasionally breaking the fourth wall The narrator is the main character, named Willa Parker, and because Willa is a teenager, the book is written the way a teenager might think or speak Portes writes in a way that may be somewhat confusing to follow at times, but it adds to the realness of the mind of a teenager She constantly adds witty, sarcastic rema [...]

A very unusual novel if YA has been tending in the direction of voice ier, catchier prose instead of a quotidian, journalistic style, this book is the former cranked up to 11 No, 11 million Alternately sort of stream of consciousness and address directly to the reader, the effervescence of the prose ultimately makes the novel great, both in tossed off lines that poke fun at YA descriptive conventions and establish a savagely smart narrator She shrugs I shrug It s like a shrugging contest over h [...]

GRADE CWilla, a brilliant girl with a unique brain has never quite fit in with others Now she s on scholarship at a ritzy boarding school and Remy, the most popular girl in the school has chosen Willa as a partner in crime But with Willa s friendship comes danger in the form of drugs and reckless behavior How much is popularity worth Andrea Portes gave Willa an irreverent, sarcastic voice THE FALL OF BUTTERFLIES felt like a conversation between Willa and the reader, because she used second perso [...]

I told myself no, FORCED myself to finish this book for the main purpose to see if there was a plot Good news there is It just doesn t come through until 2 3rds way through the novel Positives to this piece it s told from the perspective of a Mid Western girl in a snooty East Coast environment Probably the most interesting aspects But that s about it Downsides the short list Plot Too many dangling, unnecessary strings ghost and flimsy love interest, teacher student affair number 1 pet peeve in s [...]

Actual Rating 3.5 starsI enjoyed reading this book though some parts I really don t like that much This book is about Willa and Remy s friendship and being able to follow what you love and not to become a follower I like Willa s sense of humor and her loyalty towards Remy, even though Remy is a half good and horrible friend The romance in this book is very cute but also brief It focuses on Willa and Remy s friendship I will end this review with the tagline of this book because it suits perfectl [...]

The Fall Of Butterflies by Andrea Portes kind of appealed to me based on the fact that it was a newer book that was lying around my house Read my full review here Link goes live 9 27 2017