A review by wallflower_bookshelf
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

3.25

The prettiest and loveliest descriptions of nature I’ve ever read. It was so beautiful and reverent of the garden, and it was filled with such childish delight. That being said, I didn’t really care for the ending. I hated how the book glossed over the fact that Archibald Craven was an awful father. He was TERRIBLE and they don’t have any confrontation about it? No conflict? It just felt a little anti-climatic and rushed. I thought there would be more about Mary and Dickon because they were the main characters until Colin was introduced, but after Archibald came, the book ended in a sliver of pages. Idk I just expected more