Amanda
thinks her life is fine—or at least as fine as it can be when she’s not
following her dream of being an artist and is instead advising clients on what
to do with their money. She thinks that that her life is fine except that she
can’t seem to make her husband happy, and on top of that…she’s having
premonition dreams. Her life is fine but she doesn’t have those dreams unless
her life is a mess. And soon enough, real life catches up with her dreams.
BUTTERFLY
BONES is a terrific novel about dreams, both literal and metaphorical. It is
about a complicated woman living a complicated life. The genre straddles the
line between chick lit and lit fic with a dash of paranormal thrown in and
Savanna Redman makes it all work because her writing is just that good.
For one
thing, from the opening page as Amanda experiences a lucid dream, we’re thrown
into a multi-sensory world, seeing the shadow of black branches against a
violet sky, hearing the buzz of insects, smelling the scent of honeysuckle,
feeling the chill of cold dew om our bare feet. And from the first pages we
also know that Savanna may long for a normal life but she is ANYTHING but
normal.
