A review by agjuba
The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown

2.0

I normally like books that alternate between two time periods, and I recently became interested in the Spanish Civil War. Based on these 2 facts, I was expecting to love this book. Instead, I found the characters to be thinly developed, and the editing to be poor. (For example, we're introduced to Charles in chapter 5 and told that "his empty left sleeve, pinned at the elbow, swung against his side." And then only 10 paragraphs later, the author tells us that "he dug his hands into the stretched pockets of his navy cardigan.") With such an obvious error as that, I found it hard to take much of the rest of the book seriously.