Literary Lane

  RATING: 4 out of 5 stars WARNING: REVIEW CONTAINS POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. TRIGGER WARNING: STORY INCLUDES SCENES OF RAPE AND HARASSMENT Yet another very compelling, heartwarming and gripping read of historical fiction from Rosie Goodwin that I could simply not put down and finished within a matter of days. I think out of all the Flower Girls books , this has probably got to be my favourite out of the series. I get the feeling that the author had received feedback about her first flower girl book ( Our Fair Lily ) about the protagonist being too one-dimensional and too much of a Mary Sue and used that feedback to redeem herself with this book, as I can safely say that Violet was very far from the Mary Sue, perfect protagonist of Our Fair Lily. Instead, she was a very interesting, three-dimensional character, as while she is still lovely and kind, she still has her flaws such as making wrong and unfair judgements of people and being unfairly stand-offish with them, as well as ac...