The Girl in the Garden (Awash with Summer Roses Book 1)

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book did a fantastic job of solidifying that vision for me while also bringing to light all the things that can go wrong when you are too close to your neighbors. But while she embraced the techniques and influences of Impressionism she developed her own unique artistic language that often explored themes rarely touched on by male artists: the contemporary lives of middle-class women. I will say that it is a sad story and I usually don't like too much sadness in a book but overall the story was so amazing, and I loved the ending. The young woman seems to sit before it, an almost monumental figure enveloped in a frilly summer dress.

This one is full of great characters, loads of possible suspects, rich family histories, and lifetimes of secrets.

This was written by someone in a different stage of life than me and is so informed by that gap in age and experience that I can't finish the story due to having literally no sense of comradery with the main character who is the epitome of privileged rebellion. Rather than ignore this mysterious situation, she gets in and faces the unknown and uncovers something scarey and shameful, yet fulfilling to Rakhee in some way. You could put it down when you needed to, but when you picked it back up, the same atmospheric neighborhood park, with the same close-knit group of friends, was still there waiting for you, inviting you back into their absorbing world. Around sixty percent marks the actual present present and we wind our way back a second time to the goings on of the night before’s summer block party and the big reveal of the frequently mentioned potential superbadawful.

He eyed the bills she hadn't touched, and Mabel told Iris later that if he hadn't looked like he'd fall over from exhaustion any minute, he would probably have just scooped up what he'd put down and told her to go to hell. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. I also think the girls should've been 14/15 instead of 12/13, especially given the sexual activity they engaged in. She manages to piece everything together to the point that she knows exactly who did it and how and 90% of why.Outwardly, it is obvious to the reader that there are problems with her parents marriage -- a gentle father that puts in too many hours at his medical job, and a nervous, depressed mother that suffers silently.