A review by allisonbsk
The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron

3.0

This book was a good read overall. I thought the historical tale in this novel was well-told and pretty incredible- an important story to tell. I found the modern-day parts to be a little watered down and hardly necessary (except to break up the bleakness of the historical parts- it's like coming up for air in novels like this), but I appreciated the after-WWII perspective that the modern story line brought with it. I find "Christian-fiction" hard to swallow personally, so those parts (and there are many) rather made me roll my eyes and skip ahead (blah blah blah- it almost felt like a compulsion for the author, like she must say it so here I'll stick it in right here), but overall, I did really find this book to be a good read.