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A review by charkinzie
The Madness Blooms (unpublished) by Mackenzi Lee
3.0
This was a difficult book for me to review. I found the description a little confusing. I felt I would be reading a f/f historical romance.
It becomes clear about halfway through the book that the MC is a trans man...not a woman. This could be confusing for some people.
From the perspective of someone reading this as a historical novel, I found it quite interesting. I had no idea that the tulip trade was so cutthroat for a time in Holland.
The novel is set in the 1600s and has to be read with that in mind. Women are not accepted as equals, gay men are treated brutally and hanged, trans people are not accepted at all and can potentially be jailed.
If any of those types of situations make you uncomfortable, then you should probably take a pass on this book.
Madness Blooms is really well written. There is a lovely relationship between a young sailor named Jan and the MC.
This is not a happy story, nor is everything resolved at the end. But, it is a beautiful, emotional story.
It becomes clear about halfway through the book that the MC is a trans man...not a woman. This could be confusing for some people.
From the perspective of someone reading this as a historical novel, I found it quite interesting. I had no idea that the tulip trade was so cutthroat for a time in Holland.
The novel is set in the 1600s and has to be read with that in mind. Women are not accepted as equals, gay men are treated brutally and hanged, trans people are not accepted at all and can potentially be jailed.
If any of those types of situations make you uncomfortable, then you should probably take a pass on this book.
Madness Blooms is really well written. There is a lovely relationship between a young sailor named Jan and the MC.
This is not a happy story, nor is everything resolved at the end. But, it is a beautiful, emotional story.