Butterflies1

The first seven chapters of this book have been mildly interesting at best. At worst, they have been boring or melodramatic, not to mention contradictory. For example, in the first chapter, the narrator mentioned her complaint that the sisters had been made into legends, yet the narrators in later chapters went on to fictionalize and hero-worship their lives. Admittedly, the book gives the sisters just enough flaws and quirks to seem to avoid this, but it is only at a superficial level. The book raises questions about the morality of each sister's actions, but generally defends it apparently unknowingly. Besides, the book seems to try to make the sisters seem superhuman in their responses to oppression. The book over-simplifies the sisters. We as readers can never know what the sisters were actually thinking, not to mention what they actually did, because the book is so fictionalized.