from nfmgirl2

Victoria has struggled with life. Given up at birth, she has been tossed from home to home, never finding a family. Now aging out of the system at eighteen, it is time to make life her own and do with it as she please. She is lucky enough to have a few very important people enter life (Renata giv...

from missjomarch

I was very excited to read this book after seeing such great reviews on it all over the book blogs. I purposely saved it for a vacation read and I was not disappointed. An excellent account of foster child, Victoria Jones and her struggle to love and accept love. A tale of survival and then comin...

from mckait

This is a story of of needing to learn how to love. That seems unbelievable, doesn't it? Love just happens. We love our family, we love our friends, we love. We love. But, what if we never had a family, or a friend. What if a child were abandoned by her mother, the first person who would love her...

from secondhandrose

At times I felt disturbed by this novel but overall it was a very satisfying read.

from jstraws

I received this book as a part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewer's program, and found it to be an engaging literary debut-and a thought-provoking look at the lasting psychological effects of a childhood spent without a constant mother figure. The symbolic use of flowers to convey meaning here isn'...