I’m not a big blurb reader. I usually scan them to get a general idea of what a book is about, but I don’t like to know all the details. Even when reading reviews, I tend to skip over the synopsis and go straight to the reviewer’s thoughts on the book – especially whether they liked it or not.When T...
Victoria has spent her life in the care system, rejected by many foster parents due to her difficult and violent behaviour. Now eighteen years old, she is left to fend for herself with nothing but her love of flowers. Flowers were used in Victorian times to express emotions and Victoria becomes fa...
My rating is more like 4.5 stars. This book is haunting. The first half had me flipping pages to all hours of the night, and yet at the climax I didn't know if I could continue. When I turned the last page, I felt myself sighing that special sigh, the one that comes after meeting truly complex, beli...
I received this book from Goodreads Giveaways.After my recent horrendous experience with The Rose Labyrinth, which had me wanting to claw my eyes out after four sentences, it was wonderful to come across a novel with such a graceful writing style that was apparent from the first page.For eight years...
This was a really good book with a great story line to it but at times I just didn't fully connect with it. I was a bit confused with the switching back and forth between the present and the past in the chapters but eventually I got used to it. I liked how complex Victoria was and really enjoyed how...
I can't remember where I first came across this book, but I had already added it to my to-read list, so when my sister sent me an unprompted recommendation that I read it, I bumped it up to the very top. I'm glad I did, as it did not disappoint.It's a fascinating book that is at once heartbreaking a...
This review was originally published at StoryCircleBookReviews:http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/languageoflowers.shtmlThe title of Vanessa Diffenbauch's debut novel, The Language of Flowers, is deceiving. It promises something sweet and piquant like a Renaissance masquerade, but what it...
Victoria was abandoned by her mother and has been in foster care her entire life. With the exception of a period of a little over a year when she was 10, Victoria has lived with a series of horrible people and in group homes, leaving her unable to trust or emotionally connect anyone. When she is ema...
After I read this book I read some reviews here, only negative btw. I wanted to know (actually I was astonished) what people don't like in this book. Yes, I knew the answer before I even read reviews. First of all, when you start reading this book you must know that this book is realistic, so don't ...
The authorVanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. She and her husband, PK, have three children: Tre’von, eighteen; Chela, four; a...
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