The Flower Girls

[alobear]

I spotted The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts on a prominent stand on my last trip to the library, and it did a very good job of drawing my attention enough for me to add it to my collections. I read it in two days, which shows that it tells a compelling story. But that annoyed me, because there were also multiple aspects of the writing that I felt were less than stellar - too many changes of point-of-view, clumsy tense use, lots of common thriller tropes, overblown imagery. There were three twists - one that was obvious to me from very near the beginning, one that took me by surprise in a satisfying way and one that felt like a cheap trick because it seemed to come from nowhere. So, the book certainly wasn't bad and it kept me interested throughout. But it could have been done better.