It took me ages to finish this book and the reason for this is that it deals partly with a huge fear of mine. 
 As a mother of two very young children, my personal fear every time they leave the house is that somebody will take them away from me for whatever sick reason. 
 Every time of the day and wherever they go and whoever they are with, I am scared. 
 So, when the main female character has to deal with the trauma of the loss of her sister when she was a teenager, when she constantly blames herself for losing her, when her parents mourn for one child while they try not to blame the other child and in the end they lose both; it is like that I am living my worst fear again and again. 
 Nevertheless, this is a beautiful love story about two broken but talented young people who are trying to find their path in pitiless New York. 
 Each of them is broken for different reasons: 
 Zelda Rossi tries to overcome a trauma from an incident that happened when she was 14 years old and it was obviously not her mistake but she cannot stop blaming herself. 
 Beckett Copeland tries to overcome the guilt for a stupid mistake that he did as an adult and now it may cost him any opportunities he may have in his future life. 
 I have to admit that I cried my eyes out thoughout the book aEUR" even during the happy moments. It was somewhat cathartic, but it was certainly not the best choice for a Sunday afternoon. 
 Thank God there is a happy ending. 
 I suppose the moral of the story is closely related to the title of the book and the Butterfly effect that graphic artist Zelda tries to incorporate in her dystopian comic book. 
 What Zelda does not realize is that her future life is also the result of the Butterfly effect. 
 Maybe if she did not have the experience of that horrible situation as a teenager, she would have never gone to New York, she would have never met Beckett and she would have never created aEUR~Mother, may I?aEUR(tm).