Bibliokitty

Apparently, I completely misconstrued what Last Winter is about. I thought it was about an avalanche that engulfs a group of schoolkids, killing all of them but two, with one of the survivors being an eight-year-old girl whose father was the guide. Her father is still missing after the bodies of her schoolmates are recovered, so she decides to go off on her own in the wilderness to find him. I imagined a suspenseful adventure story with a precocious protagonist with mad survival skills. Instead, Last Winter is an uncomfortable story about the demise of a relationship between a mentally ill woman and a man who cannot deal with his wife’s mental health issues anymore. I would not have read this novel if I had known what I was actually getting myself into.

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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was recommended to me by my husband’s auntie, and she gave me a copy to read. She raved about how the novel’s chapter headings each describe an Australian plant, and how the novel includes illustrations of each plant, but she did not say anything about the plot. I also noticed that the novel has recently been adapted into a TV miniseries on Prime starring Sigourney Weaver. If a novel has been adapted into a movie or TV series, it has to be good, right? Unfortunately, I do not care much for The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.

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