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The Butterfly Project

Emma Scott

Start date: June 11, 2017

Finish date: June 16, 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 Diana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: turning-pages-buddy-read, favorites-of-2017

5++++++ STARS

I went into this Buddy Read blind, without reading the blurb or knowing anything about the story. I am so glad I did because I usually do not read N/A, but this story was a gem. It is not the usual guy meets girl and falls in love. It is more about how your choices in life can change everything.

Zelda Rossi experienced a horrific event when she was a teenager, and is struggling with the guilt. She takes out her aggression and need for revenge drawing a graphic novel, where there is a ...more

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Dec 13, 2020 Radd Reader rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kindle-unlimited, favorites, made-me-cry, slow-burn, standalone-series, damaged-hero-heroine, emotional, favorite-author, favorite-couple, friends-to-lovers

”Tell me something else. Something good, Beckett.”
“You don’t know how beautiful you are.”

“All I can think about is you and how you’ve taken my shitty life and made every single bit of it better.”

“You are my home. Where you are is home.”

Synopsis: Zelda and Beckett (both unable to let go of things from their past) cross paths and end up agreeing to help each other out. Through their friendship and support they fall in love and fight their internal demons that threaten a happy future.

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Feb 22, 2017 Kate rated it it was amazing

Shelves: arcs, best-book-boyfriends, 5-stars, the-tingles, all-things-romance, wounded-broody-and-handsome-alphas, funny-as-fcuk, standalones

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I feel truly honoured that I got to read this book as an ARC. Ah Ms. Scott where have you and your enchanting story telling been all my life? I fully hang my head in shame and say that this is my first book by this author but it most certainly will not be my last. I am fascinated by the ripples of the butterfly effect. We should all apply more kindness and compassion in life.

There are complex layers upon layers of emotions. A spectrum of emotions that bashes down any chance you have of keeping your emotions in check it doesn’t matter how hard you try it just won’t work. I squeezed out a tear here and there and that was justified.

Split into three parts and told in a dual POV you truly get to feel the emotions of the characters in the book. Ms. Scott wrote:

I wanted to believe words had power. The power to change the past. To fix what was broken. To heal. By writing them down on paper, they could work some kind of magic on the reader.

Ms. Scott this is exactly what you did for me. You created a special kind of magic for the reader, a magic of words which will be hard to forget.

I really do not know how Ms. Scott did it with the right balance of banter and then with the heart wrenching, soul ripping revelations that both our main characters come to.

Zelda Rossi has suffered rejection on a project that is her heart and soul. It’s just missing something. But with changes to make it could be something brilliant. If life beats you down then you get up and keep swinging. For some home comfort she goes to an Italian restaurant but her emotions get the best of her.

“Now what the fuck do I do?” I whispered. “I don’t know,” a low, gravelly voice said behind. “Maybe not freeze to death in the stinking alley?”

And so Zelda met Beckett.

Beckett Copeland has also suffered but in different ways. Forced to bear witness to what he had done. A felon one mistake that will lead him to life time of paying.

They come to arrangement. They share a flat. To try again. To gain something so beautiful in the darkness, to find that light, that glimpse that will shoot colour through a black and white world. He doesn’t want to sell blood and Zelda doesn’t want to go back to Vegas.

They are such complex characters that don’t want to ruin a good thing when they know it. A friendship that will change and bloom to something special. They can’t stop it even if they want to. But they are friends and they truly get to know one another.

“Beckett?” He was lying with his head on the pillow beside me. “Shh.” He traced the curve of my cheek and over my temple. “If you don’t go to sleep, you might remember I said that. We’re supposed to be friends.”

Day two, Rossi, and you’re already having impure thoughts about your roommate. But they are electric. They have a connection that neither one expected to have or to even deserve. We all deserve happiness. About forgiveness not from others but forgiving yourself more than anything else.
There were promises in our kiss. Unspoken vows to take care of what we had, of what we were creating in that moment, because after tonight, there was no going back.

And then when it came to Phantasus I was balling my fucking eyes out at 59 %. With the ballons with the emotions with everything. I still find it hard to put into words what I feel. I’m no Beckett.
There are so many powerful words her. So many words with so much meaning. Peace or at least reckoning, love, forgiveness. Forgiving yourself more than anything else. Beckett’s words to Mrs. J got me every single time.

The Butterfly Project is a beautiful, poignant with multiple layers. A book that you will have to read more than once to really let every facet of the book sink in. To feel the true beauty, the chance for me, the chance to deserve something you never think you should. I am blown away with this book and it IMO is a must read for 2017.

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This book is I have no words really. I have puffy eyes from crying which is really a rare occurrence. I felt tiny flutters with every word I read. Review to come.

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Mar 15, 2017 Bev rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-unlimited, book-hangover

Amazing! Just amazing. I don't think Emma Scott could write a bad book if she tried, I really don't. The Butterfly Project had everything I love in my books, and I couldn't put this one down. The feels, from reading with a silly grin on my face to really hurting for them back to hugging the shit out of my kindle. That makes a book a winner for me.

I love that the author kept the story between them with no ex drama/history. It was all about them, growing from two very wounded, guarded acquaintance ...more

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Jun 13, 2017 Stacie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-unlimited, tpam-br

5 "Finding home" Stars!

Wow! I love it. This story gave me all the feels. Heartbreak, anger, angst, hopefulness, elation.

I loved reading Zelda and Beckett fall in love. They were both such worthy characters. Their stories both so tragic in their own ways. Reading their story gave me that high you get when you're first falling in love. All the happiness, nervousness, giddiness, insecurity and hope. Then finally just jumping! This is why I read romance.

Then there was the not so subtle subtext of ...more

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Feb 22, 2017 ⏃ : ✦ villainous_vixen ⏃ : ✦ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, 5-stars, favorites, love-story, emotional, heartbreak, friendship, tears, must-read, fav-2017

5 "Where you are is home." Stars

I have no words right now.....
The Butterfly Project is yet another beautiful breathtaking novel by Emma Scott, she writes with such passion and heartache that leaves you in goosebumps.

Zelda and Beckett's relationship is not an ordinary love story. These two will break your heart while filling it with hope. Towards the end of this gripping, heart pounding novel.... throughout all your tears you have shed..... you will be smiling in glee when you hit the very last ...more

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Jun 16, 2017 Stephanie rated it it was amazing

Buddy read with my TPAM ladies. I probably never would have read this book otherwise, but it was great and I'm glad I read it! ...more

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Jan 27, 2019 Marta rated it really liked it

Shelves: alternating-povs, ebooks, contemporary-na-or-adult, roommate-or-neighbor, friends-to-lovers, why-so-serious, setting-big-city, i-am-an-artist, interconnected-standalones, lidos-2019

4.5 'no more lost in the dark' Stars

Que boa boa surpresa.
Adorei simplesmente!

Zelda e Beckett conhecem-se por acaso. E quando parecia que Zelda tinha de abandonar a ideia de conseguir ver o seu graphic novel publicado por uma editora em Nova Iorque e rumar com a cauda entra as pernas novamente para Las Vegas, tem uma epifania e sugere algo a Beckett que os fará beneficiar mutuamente. Passam a viver juntos num pequeno estúdio e assim começa a uma amizade que os fará compreender e aceitar erros e 4.5 'no more lost in the dark' Stars

Que boa boa surpresa.
Adorei simplesmente!

Zelda e Beckett conhecem-se por acaso. E quando parecia que Zelda tinha de abandonar a ideia de conseguir ver o seu graphic novel publicado por uma editora em Nova Iorque e rumar com a cauda entra as pernas novamente para Las Vegas, tem uma epifania e sugere algo a Beckett que os fará beneficiar mutuamente. Passam a viver juntos num pequeno estúdio e assim começa a uma amizade que os fará compreender e aceitar erros e pesadelos do passado.
O facto do nascimento da relação ser tão gradual, faz com que seja tão bom ler ambos os pontos de vistas. As dificuldades em se entregarem um ao outro é uma jornada que mostra que as pedras no caminho são eles próprios que as criam e não os outros.
Um livro de que dá luz à solidão, pois se o amor é capaz de algo, é de aceitação, superação, redenção e perdão.

Não foi um livro 5* pelo simples motivo que no final muita coisa acontece de bom. Claro que isso não é mau, mas para um livro com alguma carga dramática, foi demasiado estranho acontecer em tão pouco tempo.
Gostei também das personagens secundárias, Darlene, Wes e Nigel. E já sei que há livros com eles, o que me deixou extremamente feliz.

I wanted to believe words had power. The power to change the past. To fix what was broken. To heal. By writing them down on paper, they could work some kind of magic on the reader.

Lessening the misery of the past will lead to a brighter future.

“A butterfly flutters its wings in Malaysia and the changes in air currents cause a hurricane in Florida. I love that idea. That even one tiny action can create an enormous effect.”

“It felt like I’d lost something I didn’t know I wanted. And I realized you could get used to anything—even being alone for years—right until the moment you touched something better than what you had.”

I felt Beckett lying three feet from me but trapped in a past he couldn’t change. I was too—our pain was of the same fabric, even if the patterns were different.

“You are my home. Where you are is home.”

“All the risk and reward is great but it doesn’t mean shit unless you feel in your heart you’re doing the right thing.”

“There’s so much that’s shitty in this world, when you find something that shines against all the dirt and darkness, you gravitate toward it.”
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