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A review by rahafhelmi
The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld
4.0
The butterfly girl:
I’ve been so eager to read butterfly girl ever since I finished “The child finder” and found out there’s more. I also highly recommend you go and read “the child finder” first for more insight about Naomi.
I am a bit disappointed in terms of; I had my hopes very high up, and the book wasn’t the way I expected to be. Nonetheless, I loved it.
As Rene Denfeld was one a street kid herself, she reflects on the sad truth about street people, the homeless, especially the children. How tough it is and the dangers they are living everyday, hoping today won’t be their last day. It tells the sad truth about losing someone, trying to find them, trying to find yourself and your way home.
It began a bit slow, until you reach about 45% of the book, that’s when the uncovering of Naomi’s past, the dead girls from the river and Celia’s past starts to unravel.
I loved the ending!
Nonetheless, I highly recommend you read it.
From the book:
(She remembered the soft touch of one girl, looking up at her and knowing.
“I hope you don’t get lost” the girl had said.
Lost. You can be lost even when you’ve been found. You can make the wrong turn in life even if you’re surrounded by people who love you. That was what suicide was, Naomi figured. It was choosing the final exit instead of another path. Not because you wanted to hurt anyone, but because you feel too hopeless to find your way home. There was more than one kind suicide, too, more than one kind of leaving. How many people spend their entire lives not even knowing that they have already left?)
I’ve been so eager to read butterfly girl ever since I finished “The child finder” and found out there’s more. I also highly recommend you go and read “the child finder” first for more insight about Naomi.
I am a bit disappointed in terms of; I had my hopes very high up, and the book wasn’t the way I expected to be. Nonetheless, I loved it.
As Rene Denfeld was one a street kid herself, she reflects on the sad truth about street people, the homeless, especially the children. How tough it is and the dangers they are living everyday, hoping today won’t be their last day. It tells the sad truth about losing someone, trying to find them, trying to find yourself and your way home.
It began a bit slow, until you reach about 45% of the book, that’s when the uncovering of Naomi’s past, the dead girls from the river and Celia’s past starts to unravel.
I loved the ending!
Nonetheless, I highly recommend you read it.
From the book:
(She remembered the soft touch of one girl, looking up at her and knowing.
“I hope you don’t get lost” the girl had said.
Lost. You can be lost even when you’ve been found. You can make the wrong turn in life even if you’re surrounded by people who love you. That was what suicide was, Naomi figured. It was choosing the final exit instead of another path. Not because you wanted to hurt anyone, but because you feel too hopeless to find your way home. There was more than one kind suicide, too, more than one kind of leaving. How many people spend their entire lives not even knowing that they have already left?)