annewithabook 's review for:

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

3.0

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Here is my biggest criticism of this book: three timelines are too much. I don't mind two timelines, but it's really impossible to balance three timelines with three completely different sets of characters. While there is some slight overlap between eras, it is pretty slight. I could barely keep track of each of the set of characters. I think all of them would have been interesting stories, but all together it felt like we would jump to one era right as another era was getting interesting. It wasn't a horrible book, and each individual story was interesting enough, but because the book tries to tell three stories in one, I never felt like I got enough of each story to truly care and understand the characters.