The Fall of Butterflies

by Andrea Portes

We Were Liars meets Looking for Alaska in a uniquely funny and heartbreaking teen novel about a passionate-yet-doomed friendship set against a backdrop of wealth and glamour. Willa Parker, 646th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose this life? No, because that would be too easy-and nothing in Willa's life is easy. It's her famous genius mother's idea to send her to ultra-expensive, ultra-exclusive Pembroke Prep, and Willa has no intention of fitting in. But when she meets peculiar, glittering Remy Taft, the richest, most mysterious girl on campus, she starts to see a foothold in this foreign world-a place where she could maybe, possibly, sort of fit in. When Willa looks at Remy, she sees a girl who has everything. But for Remy, having everything comes at a price. And as she spirals out of control, Willa can feel Remy spinning right out of her grasp. Andrea Portes, author of the hilarious, heartbreaking Anatomy of a Misfit, spins a similarly incandescent, heartfelt story that explores the meaning of friendship, new beginnings, and the precarious joy and devastating pain of finding home in a place-a person-with wings.

• ISBN10: 0062313673
• ISBN13: 9780062313676
• Publish Date: 10 May 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 10 April 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperTeen
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.com.au/9780062313676

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

For me, this book was not bad. I actually really loved Willa's voice, and was throughly entertained throughout the story. It was more of where the story went. I was fully enthralled by Willa, but when she started running with Remy, I felt like she was abandoning her own standards, and running with the crowd. It was also typical "rich people problems". Not from Willa, but the friends she made her boarding school. There were a few really lovely moment shared between Remy and Willa, and I was all about the friendship, but those were few and far between. I wish there had been more of Willa being Willa, because she was funny, witty, intelligent, and fiercely loyal. Again, not bad, not great, could have been better.

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