Hello, I am Victoria a Freshman student in college. I first came upon In the time of Butterflies by one of my very close friends. She introduced me to the book this past summer when I told her I wanted to study women rights at the  University of Maryland in which i'd be starting in a couple months. She told me that she had read "In the time of the butterflies" last summer and it was a great novel that displayed  how the Maribal Sisters impacted life in the Dominican republic. I decided to start blogging about this book because around the second chapter I realized that I couldn't put it down and not only because it expressed women rights but because i had actually became interested in the story. I wanted to in a way put the story in my own hands dig deeper than the surface and I began to realize I might not be the only one who thinks this way, or even betteothers would have different perspectives from mine.