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A review by chloe_loux
The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Honestly, great writing and good sturdy plot that just eventually petered out to nothingness. Like it really felt like a wasted plot on a shocking ending that needed fleshing out a bit more but just ended so bluntly. It’s left me feeling a bit furious and short changed. The detective was pushing and could’ve kept going which I seemed like could’ve gave us a different ending yet it the ending was wrapped up within a page or two. There was a weird bit of casual racism in the middle and also a mistake with a paragraph that was repeated twice.
*on my third edit of this review because I keep remembering things that annoyed me or didn’t make sense. There’s a scene all about fingerprints yet nothing comes of it, it seems there was apparently NO forensic examination happening?? Also I wonder why L didn’t change after their mum?? And the tape recordings don’t make sense? Like oh you recorded yourself playing rock paper scissors?? There was a whole perspective to the book that was unnecessary in Joanna and I’m of the opinion that unreliable narration is just lazy writing for someone to do a 180 at the end of the book.
*on my third edit of this review because I keep remembering things that annoyed me or didn’t make sense. There’s a scene all about fingerprints yet nothing comes of it, it seems there was apparently NO forensic examination happening?? Also I wonder why L didn’t change after their mum?? And the tape recordings don’t make sense? Like oh you recorded yourself playing rock paper scissors?? There was a whole perspective to the book that was unnecessary in Joanna and I’m of the opinion that unreliable narration is just lazy writing for someone to do a 180 at the end of the book.