A review by heatherjm
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

It was slow-paced and repetitive in a way I didn’t like. A strange use of “parallel timelines” as the flashbacks were already described in the “twenty years later” chapters, so why have flashback chapters at all? They didn’t add new information to the story much.