aimsied 's review for:

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
4.5
challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really enjoyed the story and loved the meanings of the Flowers at each chapter. Although at times it was a very difficult, sad and heavy read. 
Reading it I was willing Alices story not to become about history repeating itself. I wish there had been more time given to the Flowers, I really enjoyed the earlier section of the book. 
The ending felt very rushed and I would have preferred more time given to seeing what happened with Alice after so much heartache throughout.

A lot of the plot points in the book are very heavy with cruel fate to multiple characters, so as much as I enjoyed reading the book I felt overall it weighs a bit heavily.