A review by tiffanywang29
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

3.0

Truthfully, Jio's writing simply doesn't appeal to me as beautiful prose. She too explicitly lays out a mystery-it's like she's a waitress and describes exactly what I'm about to experience. It is obviously sketchy that there is a journal about a scandalous action in the bedroom Emily's sleeping in. You don't have to go, "This seemed weird that the journal was there." The way that all the townspeople tried to hide the secret was also somewhat off. Some (like Evelyn) acted like Yodas, leading Emily on the path, but not fully divulging the story. Others turned off too quickly and seemed like worthless characters. The plot itself was nice, but the writing seemed too blunt.