A review by margaret_j_c
The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown

2.0

I guess the biggest bone I have to pick with this book is that it was so predictable. Every plot point felt like one I'd read a dozen times before. The characters were ill-developed and not given enough screentime for the reader to come to know them. The main character, Emma, was rather bland and two-dimensional. A lot of the dialogue was clunky and cringe-worthy, and a few times I found myself wondering how the more amateur bits made it past an editor's eye. I love the setting and the concept of a novel about perfume, it just didn't live up to what I felt like it could have been.