A review by bookpaperraven
The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown

3.0

I wasn’t a huge fan of this book. It’s felt a bit dull until the last 100 pages.It was often hard to tell what was happening within chapters because the scene would flip to a memory without it being clear that’s what occurred and then would flip back, with no indication. Even a change of font would have helped. Point of view flip flopped a lot, even within a scene it could be hard to tell who was the narrator but it was not presented in an omniscient tense. I also didn’t understand why Emma referred to her mother and grandmother as Freya and Liberty in her thoughts, but not when she actually spoke to them. All of these issues ruined the book for me. But I did learn about pre WWII Spain, so I didn’t come out of the book with nothing at least.