I was very excited to read this book after seeing such great reviews on it all over the book blogs. I purposely saved it for a vacation read and I was not disappointed. An excellent account of foster child, Victoria Jones and her struggle to love and accept love. A tale of survival and then coming f...
Wow. Wow. This book... I don't even know where to begin. I love the way when you read, it's like there's a show going on in your head. You can see the characters, what they're wearing, the emotions on their faces. It's like a movie, except better, because it's just you and that screen your head, and...
This is the best thing I've read since Emma Donoghue's Room. Compelling, unique, and unflinching, this book examines the life of a foster child and the effects that growing up in the system have on the adult she becomes. The flower lore that is woven through the book never seems gimicky. Clear a cou...
I think I am in the minority here with this book. I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have because I just didn't like the main character. Though I felt sorry for her, I just couldn't feel much sympathy with her back and forth feelings in particular the scenes concerning her daughter. I did enjoy...
This book is really amazing read. At first when the story started I will admit I got confused but when I figured out that the chapter one was the past and the other chapter was the present I figured it out.
It's unfair of me to rate this book so I won't. I simply can't stomach this type of fiction. Without the use of the Victorian Era's Language of Flowers as a hook this story would be nothing but a straight up soap opera in paper form. The language and pacing are good but the story, obviously, did not...
I don't do contemporary literary fiction. There always seems to be tragedy on top of heartache, betrayals, pregnancies, and tears. I read to escape the awfulness of daily life so I'd rather not go there.The Language of Flowers, shelved as romance 154 times, confused my radar. On one hand, the ide...
I wanted to like this book. I really liked the idea of communicating through flowers. I thought this was going to be a quiet, melancholic story. Instead it was raw and painful and violent. The main character, Victoria Jones, reminded me a bit of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ...
18-year-old Victoria Jones finds herself emancipated from the foster care system after "aging out." She'd been mostly in the system since her mother abandoned her at birth. She's hidden her troubles in caring for flowers throughout the years. She's well versed in the "language of flowers" and often ...
The narrative in this book is all from the main character's POV, and moves back and forth in time, though it's all told from her present-sense perception. Through such a narrow lens, it takes a while to get a picture of what's going on. I found it necessary but painful to pull away into a 3rd person...
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