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The Sound of Butterflies
The Sound of Butterflies | Rachael King
2 posts | 1 read | 1 reading | 2 to read
It is 1903 when Thomas Edgar says goodbye to his young wife Sophie and embarks on a journey to the Amazon, where he dreams of finding a mythical butterfly that will make both his name and his fortune. His dreams change, however, soon after his arrival in Brazil . . . Months later, Thomas arrives home, thin, sick and, worst of all, unable – or unwilling – to speak. Frustrated by his silence, Sophie takes increasingly drastic measures to uncover the truth about what happened to her husband while he was away. But as she sorts through Thomas’s diaries and boxes of exquisite butterflies, it becomes clear that the truth may not be easy to bear.
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Olivia306
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Panpan

Meh. Maybe Ms. King approached too many important themes or I was too annoyed by both MCs, but this book falls flat on too many levels. The narrative is interesting at the beginning and kept me curious. For a while at least. But then the MC‘s naivety about the world, dangerous for the people around him, becomes annoying. There‘s no solace in other characters either and the climax falls flat. A story that could have been more but just couldn‘t.

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bookwormbabe

Currently reading this #notsure. I think there are too many themes and that a smaller number of themes could be explored more easily?

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