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hectaizani's review
4.0
Librarything Early Reviewers copy.
Two parallel stories of women who sacrifice themselves in different ways to help the ones they love. Therapist Tori Lake goes on the run when a deranged client threatens harm to Tori's son. A major opera buff she begins dreaming of Puccini's housekeeper and the trials the housekeeper faces trying to keep peace in the household. It is never made clear whether these are just dreams or if there is a supernatural bond spanning time and space. Tori's dreams do help her face her situation and the realization that flight wasn't the only option. I enjoyed this story and look forward to picking up other books by Louise Marley.
Two parallel stories of women who sacrifice themselves in different ways to help the ones they love. Therapist Tori Lake goes on the run when a deranged client threatens harm to Tori's son. A major opera buff she begins dreaming of Puccini's housekeeper and the trials the housekeeper faces trying to keep peace in the household. It is never made clear whether these are just dreams or if there is a supernatural bond spanning time and space. Tori's dreams do help her face her situation and the realization that flight wasn't the only option. I enjoyed this story and look forward to picking up other books by Louise Marley.
ja3m3's review
2.0
Maybe I just didn't get it. There are two stories interwoven in The Glass Butterfly and both stories are fine - on their own, but the flimsy linking of them by psychic dreams was kind of a "really" for me. I wanted more details about Puccini and kept thinking that would have been the better story focus than the therapist who is escaping from a crazy sociopathic patient. This wouldn't be a bad summer vacation looking at the ocean not focusing book, if you want to give it a shot.
jbarr5's review
5.0
The Glass Butterfly by Louise Marley
Name of this book attracted me first, then the story line.
I can't even imagine the planning that went into creating a whole new life for yourself. Not sure how she could leave the people she did.
Love what the glass butterfly stands for and glad she has it with her in times of doubt. It's Murano glass and I love the tales of that island.
This mystery leads us to Oregon area which I love to visit and Tory rebuilds her life. Mystery of things that she had done along the way and why she had done them and the things she brought with her are told in her tale over the course of the book.
Love the Italian phrases and the English translations at the beginning of each chapter. love the house on the shore and the descriptions of the sea around her at Cannon Beach.
There are chapters from her son and a maid at a villa in Italy, as well as herself that kinda help you piece the whole picture together, while it's happening to them.
Another mystery: why is one of his mom's clients breaking into the house, to get her records? She's a deputy police woman.
Tory moves on fixing things at her new place, making a friend of the landlord and getting a part time job to keep busy.
Jack has a plan after the house is broken into and ransacked but he doesn't tell anybody, making up another story to tell them.
He can't conceive that his mom is dead. The fey of it all that she and he both share won't let him give up on her.
Super read!
Name of this book attracted me first, then the story line.
I can't even imagine the planning that went into creating a whole new life for yourself. Not sure how she could leave the people she did.
Love what the glass butterfly stands for and glad she has it with her in times of doubt. It's Murano glass and I love the tales of that island.
This mystery leads us to Oregon area which I love to visit and Tory rebuilds her life. Mystery of things that she had done along the way and why she had done them and the things she brought with her are told in her tale over the course of the book.
Love the Italian phrases and the English translations at the beginning of each chapter. love the house on the shore and the descriptions of the sea around her at Cannon Beach.
There are chapters from her son and a maid at a villa in Italy, as well as herself that kinda help you piece the whole picture together, while it's happening to them.
Another mystery: why is one of his mom's clients breaking into the house, to get her records? She's a deputy police woman.
Tory moves on fixing things at her new place, making a friend of the landlord and getting a part time job to keep busy.
Jack has a plan after the house is broken into and ransacked but he doesn't tell anybody, making up another story to tell them.
He can't conceive that his mom is dead. The fey of it all that she and he both share won't let him give up on her.
Super read!
elisagiorgio13's review
1.0
I didn't finish it, which in itself says something for me. I rarely don't finish a book but I just couldn't get through it.
mjfmjfmjf's review
4.0
Not exactly a fantasy and not exactly a history of Puccini. Kind of a murder mystery-ish with opera components. Not really my thing but beautifully written. I do hope Louise Marley will eventually go back to writing sf.
eupomene's review
2.0
I am a big fan of Marley's TERRORISTS OF IRUSTAN and CHILD GODDESS, so I was surprised at how disappointed I was in GLASS BUTTERFLY. I found the two stories within it really didn't hang together - it didn't make sense that they should be woven together in such a manner. The contemporary story needed a major brain check at the door as I just couldn't believe Tory's flight from danger and reinvention of herself could happen in that way. The historical bit was more interesting, and I might have enjoyed it more if that was fleshed out into a novel, without the contemporary piece.
On the other hand, her writing is still lovely and I always love a good starting-over tale. I just might stick with her fantasy.
I received my copy through LIbraryThing's Early Reviewer program.
On the other hand, her writing is still lovely and I always love a good starting-over tale. I just might stick with her fantasy.
I received my copy through LIbraryThing's Early Reviewer program.
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