A review by literary_heather
The Red Chrysanthemum by Linda Beutler

3.0

Wonderful page-turner - until the last few chapters. After they reconcile and get engaged (I would hope that isn't a spoiler!) the story goes downhill. They get hitched, and then everything is about waiting to have sex, about their experience together in the bedroom, all of it. It felt completely out of place from the rest of the story which had been very G-rated - all about love and flowers, not her bosom and his "desire". I would have given this a solid 4 rating but chapters 14 to the epilogue ruined it for me, I'm disappointed to say.