Garden Spells

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 Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (read in April 2012)


I just finished a great little novel called Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen.  It’s set in North Carolina, in a small town where family legends still run true.  The themes that run through the book are passions, family roots, finding your own path, and love.  I loved getting to know the characters, my favorites were Claire and Evanelle.  The descriptions of the garden and flowers were very whimsical.  It’s very well written and loved how everything went together pretty well.  For future reference, this book is best suited for high school students and older because of allusions and flat-out literal scenes of sex, abuse and strong language (there you go, I feel like the MPAA of books.)  I wrote down only one quotation while reading this book, but that’s enough to make it memorable, especially since it’s the central theme of the book and incidentally in life, as well:

“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?” ~Fred Walker, pg. 200

 Food and love make this book yummy.  Here is link (from the author's website) for recipes using botanical flower petals: Garden Spells Recipes.

I give Garden Spells 4/5 stars.


*Review is copied from my other blog.