The flashbacks add continuously to the story as it evolves, but you don’t get the full story, only hints of it, until part three when it’s all revealed.
The actual narrative is a flip-flop between flashbacks in bold and current setting and events. It’s broken into three major story “arcs” easily broken down by England into three major parts with an epilogue. It’s a page turner indeed and often hard to put down in between scenes. After the first day though, my reading slowed down and it ended up taking me exactly a week to finish, not too shabby for 350 pages. The first day I went through the first 120 pages, mostly full of an intermixing of flashbacks and current setting and events. For those of you who follow me on tumblr you know I was torn between reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane or Wildthorn (I will read both I was just torn about order.) I decided to read Wildthorn. Love is the key.” I was hooked line and sinker and picked it up. A corset lacing on the front of a YA novel called Wildthorn with the tagline… “Treachery locks her away. Why this book? I was actually looking for the next in the Tiger’s Curse series when it caught my eye on the bookshelf at the library. So instead you guys get some photographs from the victorian era of some lovely lesbian ladies. If you are okay with LGBT+ expect a great summer YA read.įirst off there is a severe lack of imagery of this book! Tumblr, dA and general Google searches brought up nothing. You won’t enjoy this book at all, even if you enjoyed The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Let me start off this review by saying if you’re opposed to LGBT+ stop reading now. Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction, Drama, Adventure, LGBT+, Feminist Ages 14 up.Photo courtesy of viola-goes-to-hollywood on tumblr The surprisingly happy ending in which Louisa escapes and confronts her accusers is a welcome relief after all of her angst and despair.
and only one grimy, frayed towel between us." The author tenderly and expertly builds a romance between Louisa and an attendant, Eliza ("I close my eyes, breathing in her warmth, her familiar almond scent and my thoughts fly like birds"). but it's a damp, dark place with cockroaches scuttling. Eagland conveys the atrocities and filth of the asylum with shocking vividness: "e're allowed to go to the washroom. The story picks up, though, when it becomes apparent that Louisa is in love with Grace, and both Louisa and readers begin to wonder exactly why she was committed and who committed her. The opening pages plod through 17-year-old Louisa Cosgrove's early days of incarceration and flashbacks that reveal little more than her fascination with both medicine and her lovely cousin, Grace. In this unusual romance, first published in the U.K., debut author Eagland takes readers inside an insane asylum for women in the 19th century.
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