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Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan

4 reviews

aimeejane's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Confinement, Child abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Child death, Death, Abandonment, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

kreglow's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Drug use, Grief, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Emotional abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Torture, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Rape, and Terminal illness

starrysteph's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Sisterhood and tragic ghostly memories and personified houses - Her Little Flowers was an atmospheric & emotional gothic horror story.

We follow reclusive Francine, who manages her family manor alone with an array of friendly ghosts. She’s startled by the sign in her tea leaves that an enemy is on the way - and then is disgruntled to receive her estranged sister Madeline. But Maddie has some new information about the sisters’ family history, and the two of them must prepare to confront the cruelty of the past in order to understand the haunting of the present.

There’s a beautiful throughline of flower symbolism, and I was fascinated by the way Francine viewed everyone in her life through a floral lens. I was dying to know what my own flower would be!

The house really comes to life on the page - through the intensity of Francine’s fears and buried memories, through the ghosts that stalk its halls, and through Francine’s stubbornness to renovate and get rid of vintage quirks.

This is a powerful story of sisterhood - of sisters protecting each other until the bitter end. Ghosts and memories entwine and family hauntings are as real as they are symbolic.

My one stumble here was that the writing was a tad clunky - many sentences were awkward and the dialogue was sometimes stilted as well, which made my immersive reading journey more difficult.

CW: child abuse, child death, domestic abuse, death of a loved one, alcoholism, confinement, misogyny, toxic relationship, forced institutionalization, murder, grief, gaslighting, animal death, psychosis

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(I received a free copy of this book; this is my honest review.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Murder, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

meganpbennett's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I won a copy of Her Little Flowers from Kensington Publishing, and it was very interesting. Not my usual genre, but an interesting read. It had an extremely so start, with tantalizing snippets of what happened 50 years ago in between chapters. About 80 pages in, it gets really interesting, as the central mystery starts up. 

Thank you to Kensington Publishing for the free Advanced Reader. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Physical abuse