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A review by alibraryofsorts
The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron
3.0
My Review also on my Blog: Adventure Under the Stairs.
Characters
Adele was an absolute joy. With some books you'll get the main female characters who seem a bit passive. They depend on others to get them out of situations. They don't have that spark, that spunk, that get up and do your own thing.
Adele is not one of those characters.
While she was ignorant of what was going around her (at first), she looked for answers. She wanted to do something. She wanted to make a difference. And when she was placed in Auschwitz, she didn't keep her head down. She still wanted to do something. Yes, she wanted to survive, but she wanted to help those around her as well: her fellow musicians, the people she watched walk into the camps and the gas chambers. Adele was a fighter, and I loved her for that.
Sera...Sera was okay. As a character she was nicely rounded, but her storyline fell flat for me. Reading her story next to Adele's, her story seemed washed out, but I'll get to that in a moment. I wasn't a fan of William either, but again, that may have to do with the fact that I loved the historical story more than the modern one.
Of course, there were a number of other characters, but I generally talk about the main ones unless there is a secondary character that truly wowed me.
Plot
Adele's story: Hands down fantastic. I did not know about the orchestras in the concentration camps. I am extremely grateful to the author, Kristy Cambron for sharing that information with me through her novel. It makes me want to know more, to get out and research everything I can about them because you never hear about it (at least I didn't).
I also loved the love story between Adele and Vladimir was perfection. I was hoping for their relationship to last. I was hoping they would both be safe. I was hoping they would have a happy ending. I do not wish to spoil, so I won't tell you if they did or not, but their story was just wonderful from beginning to end.
Sera and William's romance, on the other hand, was a struggle. It was more of a instant-love, which doesn't sit well for me. They had maybe a few hours of conversation and Sera is already wanting to open her heart which had been closed off for two years, to him. She had hearts floating around her head way too quickly for me, and William wasn't any better.
Overall, because of the huge differences between the Adele story and the Sera story, it made rating this book very difficult for me. On another note, this was a Christian fiction, which I don't normally read. Actually, this was my first one, but it's not a story that's shoving Christianity down your throat, so it can be read by anyone of any religious or non-religious belief.
Rating: 3.5/5 STARS
Characters
Adele was an absolute joy. With some books you'll get the main female characters who seem a bit passive. They depend on others to get them out of situations. They don't have that spark, that spunk, that get up and do your own thing.
Adele is not one of those characters.
While she was ignorant of what was going around her (at first), she looked for answers. She wanted to do something. She wanted to make a difference. And when she was placed in Auschwitz, she didn't keep her head down. She still wanted to do something. Yes, she wanted to survive, but she wanted to help those around her as well: her fellow musicians, the people she watched walk into the camps and the gas chambers. Adele was a fighter, and I loved her for that.
Sera...Sera was okay. As a character she was nicely rounded, but her storyline fell flat for me. Reading her story next to Adele's, her story seemed washed out, but I'll get to that in a moment. I wasn't a fan of William either, but again, that may have to do with the fact that I loved the historical story more than the modern one.
Of course, there were a number of other characters, but I generally talk about the main ones unless there is a secondary character that truly wowed me.
Plot
Adele's story: Hands down fantastic. I did not know about the orchestras in the concentration camps. I am extremely grateful to the author, Kristy Cambron for sharing that information with me through her novel. It makes me want to know more, to get out and research everything I can about them because you never hear about it (at least I didn't).
I also loved the love story between Adele and Vladimir was perfection. I was hoping for their relationship to last. I was hoping they would both be safe. I was hoping they would have a happy ending. I do not wish to spoil, so I won't tell you if they did or not, but their story was just wonderful from beginning to end.
Sera and William's romance, on the other hand, was a struggle. It was more of a instant-love, which doesn't sit well for me. They had maybe a few hours of conversation and Sera is already wanting to open her heart which had been closed off for two years, to him. She had hearts floating around her head way too quickly for me, and William wasn't any better.
Overall, because of the huge differences between the Adele story and the Sera story, it made rating this book very difficult for me. On another note, this was a Christian fiction, which I don't normally read. Actually, this was my first one, but it's not a story that's shoving Christianity down your throat, so it can be read by anyone of any religious or non-religious belief.
Rating: 3.5/5 STARS