A review by verumsolum
Wildflower Heart by Grace Greene
4.0
This is one of those books where I want to say "I liked it except…"
But when I reflect on what comes after those words, I realize that it is a reflection of my own yearnings: for a world that is fair and predictable and always sunny. One of the things that makes this book good, to me, is that it reckons with those yearnings, but has the courage to place them within the imperfect world we actually live in.
This novel is about responding to life's challenges. And it shows that well. Kara is neither a practically perfect heroine nor a grotesquely flawed doormat: she wrestles with challenges, some of which are probably larger than she would have imagined for herself, and the lines to her successes are not smooth and straight.
More importantly to me, Grace Greene has created a wonderful world here. The community we have glimpsed around Kara and her father really intrigues me and I look forward to reading the promised second book when it is available.
But when I reflect on what comes after those words, I realize that it is a reflection of my own yearnings: for a world that is fair and predictable and always sunny. One of the things that makes this book good, to me, is that it reckons with those yearnings, but has the courage to place them within the imperfect world we actually live in.
This novel is about responding to life's challenges. And it shows that well. Kara is neither a practically perfect heroine nor a grotesquely flawed doormat: she wrestles with challenges, some of which are probably larger than she would have imagined for herself, and the lines to her successes are not smooth and straight.
More importantly to me, Grace Greene has created a wonderful world here. The community we have glimpsed around Kara and her father really intrigues me and I look forward to reading the promised second book when it is available.