Review: You Need to Love as if Tomorrow Would Never Come...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
How could I not to love such a touching and inspiring book?Blue Butterfly brings us Precious Blue Johnson's story, who has her life turned upside down by her stepmother who was jealous of her relationship with her father.On that night, Blue discovers that the man who had raised her was not her biological father, but someone who really loved her mother.Leaving her hometown in Georgia, she goes to New York in search of her real father, but on the way she meets a lady, Ms. Ann, who decides to adopt Blue and make her a great ballerina.Normal? It would be if it was not a detail: Blue was black girl.Was the world ready for a black ballerina?Precious Blue faces situations and people who do not want to see her success, but she has the support of those who love her, as Ray Silvers, the pretty young man with deep blue eyes and is almost doctor.Ray and Precious' love suffers attacks by his biological mother, a selfish, bitter and drug addicted woman.The whole story is told by Precious as an interview to a ghostwriter.The story is beautiful, can lead the reader to tears in several parts, but, above all, shows the strength of character and courage of black women who fought for their place under the sun.A beautiful tribute to them all.5 STARS