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fairytales 's review for:
Give Me Butterflies
by Jillian Meadows
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The overall love story in this book was a delight and I am looking forward to reading more from this author in the future. It was a fun romance and I liked the maturity and emotion that the characters demonstrated.
Finn’s grief for his sister felt very real and deep. It resonated with me. I liked that he and his nieces went to therapy. I appreciated the representation of Milly’s anxiety and panic attacks when seeing a controlling ex. I also really enjoyed the museum setting and would have loved if that was emphasized more.
I liked getting to see Milly and her friendships though I wish we had seen Finn with one or more friends. Milly’s text conversations with her family were wonderful and funny. I liked Elouise and Avery and thought they were cute characters.
The drawbacks: the writing was overly descriptive and flowery at times, particularly when it was in Finn’s voice. It just didn’t read as a realistic guy’s perspective sometimes. For example, here a quote from Finn’s perspective: “her eyes shine like morning dew on deep green moss.” Do people actually think like that? The similes and metaphors just felt like too much sometimes.
The romance between Milly and Finn was lovely but I wanted a bit more of a slow burn. It felt like after the initial tension, they moved awfully fast, particularly with two young kids involved. I did appreciate the communication in their relationship and that they talked through problems and issues andwithout a third act break up.
I’m someone who likes to spend some good time concluding the story but even to me, it felt like a bit too much epilogue. Also, Lena’s parenting sequence in the second epilogue did not make sense to me. She went from not dating anyone to three years later having two kids, one of whom, Julia, was old enough to apparently be balancing the younger one on her hip. I feel like I must have misheard or misinterpreted who Julia was but I couldn’t figure it out.
Finn’s grief for his sister felt very real and deep. It resonated with me. I liked that he and his nieces went to therapy. I appreciated the representation of Milly’s anxiety and panic attacks when seeing a controlling ex. I also really enjoyed the museum setting and would have loved if that was emphasized more.
I liked getting to see Milly and her friendships though I wish we had seen Finn with one or more friends. Milly’s text conversations with her family were wonderful and funny. I liked Elouise and Avery and thought they were cute characters.
The drawbacks: the writing was overly descriptive and flowery at times, particularly when it was in Finn’s voice. It just didn’t read as a realistic guy’s perspective sometimes. For example, here a quote from Finn’s perspective: “her eyes shine like morning dew on deep green moss.” Do people actually think like that? The similes and metaphors just felt like too much sometimes.
The romance between Milly and Finn was lovely but I wanted a bit more of a slow burn. It felt like after the initial tension, they moved awfully fast, particularly with two young kids involved. I did appreciate the communication in their relationship and that they talked through problems and issues and
I’m someone who likes to spend some good time concluding the story but even to me, it felt like a bit too much epilogue. Also, Lena’s parenting sequence in the second epilogue did not make sense to me. She went from not dating anyone to three years later having two kids, one of whom, Julia, was old enough to apparently be balancing the younger one on her hip. I feel like I must have misheard or misinterpreted who Julia was but I couldn’t figure it out.