Not what i was expecting..
Expectations...
I confess that i wasn't able to appreciate this book.
The writing is okay, it has a fluidity to it, that makes it easier and compelling to keep on reading, even when i wasn't enjoying the story.
The main character Jessamine is a naive young girl who lives alone with her eccentric father. A person who is obsessed with all the botanical knowlegde he can adquire.
Her father has created a garden filled with dangerous plants, and Jessamine is forbidden there to enter.
She feels abandoned, and alone, and of course than when a strange young man appears, she falls in love with him.
(Don't they always?)
Weed, the name of the young man, is...strange...bottom line. he can understand plants. And the "poisonous" garden scares him to the death.
But...
There'll be a person willing to do almost everything in the name of knowledge...
And Jessamine and Weed will be forced into a crazy game where to fail is to die.
The point that lost me in this story, was the fact, that after a certain point, the "plants" have a lot of spotlight. Some plants, like Oleander for instance, who plays the part of "Prince of poisons" will be given a role, and while trying to achieve a certain task, Weed will enter in conversations with other plants. This level of thing, was just too much for me. I like magical realism, but not this one.
And then the characters were just too weak...
Not my kind of book.
