The Butterfly Room

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THE AUTHOR: Lucinda Riley is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress. She spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. At age 14 she moved to London to a specialist drama and ballet school. She wrote her first book aged twenty four.

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We follow Posy from childhood to retirement – which phase of her life did you most enjoy writing about? Everyone in this book has secrets. Very minor secrets that get blown way out of proportion to create the drama necessary for the storyline. No one will talk to anyone else to even give them a CHANCE to understand what is going on. Admiral House is almost a character of its own in the story. Is it based on a house that you’ve been to?

The second part of the novel is Posy’s “current” life — dealing with the problems of her two grown sons, trying to figure out what to do with the rapidly deteriorating Admiral House that has become too expensive to maintain, and the sudden reappearance of a long-lost love. (Does it get more trite than that?)

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The Butterfly Room is a sweeping multi-generational saga of long held secrets, devastating despair and second chances. Riley’s writing is rich and engrossing. Her characters are convincing.The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multigenerational story full of heartbreaking secrets, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series. Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful Suffolk family home, Admiral House, she is surrounded by memories of her idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and of raising her own children. But Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision.

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Lucinda Riley is the writer of the wildly popular THE SEVEN SISTERS series, which I have not yet read. In retrospect, I wish I would have started there as my introduction to this author rather than this standalone. THE BUTTERFLY ROOM is a fine (longish???) novel, but I think my problem was with its characters. They did things to each other, and kept things from each other, that felt false and unrelatable. This epic saga was beautifully written with enticingly mysterious and cleverly intertwining storylines’ Daily Mail Captivating . . . This multi-generational tale is a poignant yet uplifting novel that strikes just the right balance with its tone and characters. I stayed in the woods a very long time, until I heard Daisy calling for me. I only wished I could ask Daddy why he'd killed them when they were so beautiful, and then hung them up like trophies so he could look up and see their deadness on the walls. My thoughts:It’s no secret that I am a huge Lucinda Riley fan. I’ve read almost all her books to date, and those that I haven’t I plan to soon. I always find myself completely engaged in her stories, falling in love with her characters and swept up in their lives and this one was no different.I think readers who enjoy romance novels with old houses and family dramas might well enjoy this one. I honestly didn’t connect with the characters and the story felt a little twee. There wasn’t enough drama or suspense here to keep me interested. Having said that I am not a fan of romance novels and this in my opinion was more romance than Historical fiction and therefore not really my thing. No soy muy dada a historias corales, de ahí mi puntuación. es un libro muy correcto y con una buena estructura, pese a que después de leer el primer tercio todavía no tuviera muy claro de qué iba y qué me iba a encontrar. Para mí es la historia de esa mansión y de sus habitantes. Historias duras, historias felices, algunas demasiado increíbles... se lee bien y entretiene. Es el único libro que he leído de la autora, pero sí sé que no soy muy dada a estas historias. siempre he pensado que es más sencillo centrarse en menos personajes porque, al final, te cuenta poco de cada historia y te quedas con ganas de saber más de unas y con la sensación de que otras sobran Book Review: Meet Your Matcha (Common Threads #7) by Nanxi Wen @nanxiwenauthor @smartypantsromance October 16, 2023 No había leído nada de esta autora, tengo ganas de leer la saga de las siete hermanas, aunque preferí empezar por este que es autoconclusivo, imagino que no he acertado mucho con la elección ya que es una autora que en general tiene muy buenas reseñas.

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Book Review: All Mixed Up (Common Threads #8) by Heidi Hutchinson @smartypantsromance @heidi_hutchinson October 23, 2023 In 1940 we meet Posy, growing up in Admiral House with her parents. She has a close bond with her father until he is sent to war.Entré al libro sin saber de qué iba y la realidad es que engancha, te mantiene así hasta el final y además sorprende. Como crítica personal tengo que decir que hay algunas cosas que no me terminaron de cerrar, sobre todo relacionado a la parte romántica de alguno de los personajes y la forma en que se desarrolla. My darling, I’m afraid the beach isn’t suitable for playing at the moment. It’s covered in barbed wire and mines. Do you remember when I explained to you about what happened in Southwold last month?’ But what about our beach hut?’ I asked Daddy. I loved our little hut – it was painted a butter yellow, and stood at the very end of the row so if you looked the right way, you could pretend that you were the only people on the beach for miles, but if you turned the other way, you weren’t too far from the nice ice cream man by the pier. Daddy and I always made the most elaborate sandcastles, with turrets and moats, big enough for all the little crabs to live in if they decided to come close enough. Maman never wanted to come to the beach; she said it was ‘too sandy’, which I thought was rather like saying the ocean was too wet. blogtour Adventure Ancient Egypt Art History Australia Book Blogger Bookliterati Book Recommendation Book review Christmas Contemporary Fiction Crime Del Rey Doubleday Emmeline Kirby and Gregory Longdon Mystery Fantasy Festive Reads Florence Folklore Harper Collins Historical Fiction History Independently Published Italy Karen Swan Literary Fiction Magic Mantle Books Melville House Murder Mystery Myth Orenda Books Pan Macmillan Penguin Random House Psychological thriller Romance Secrets Simon and Schuster Supernatural Suspense thriller Venice Women's Fiction Zaffre Books Book title Search for: Search Search Recent Comments