This was definitely an interesting read. It came off completely different than what I was expecting from the premise of the book. This is a story about a girl named Greta who has to come back from her research project for her PhD because her twin brother has had a brain aneurysm. The entire plot is essentially Greta navigating her sudden new situation and trying to work around people. So, where to begin, the first thing I have to say is that Greta was hard for me to connect with and even as introverted and slightly prickly as I am, Greta took it to a whole new level.Greta is prickly, introverted, and has the social skills of a door, i.e. none. Every interaction she has with someone is stunted and makes her seem almost misanthropic. The only thing she really cares about is her twin brother and her PHD study in insects. The one glaring thing about her is her massive abandonment issues, since her mom left when she was younger. Greta is the worst to her brother's girlfriend and constantly treats her like trash, Greta is extremely angry at her mother who has come back to help her brother, and to her only friend Max, she barely reciprocates friendship. Greta is like this through the entire book until about the last 90% of the book. She really was not that likable and honestly at some parts of the book, I just wanted to shake her. The overall story is okay, but the inner narrative from Greta was a bit hard to bear especially with her constant anger and lamenting over all the things that upset her or how much she dislikes people. One nice thing about this story though was that I did enjoy learning more about butterflies.
* Thanks Netgalley for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*