Saturday, November 05, 2016

Review: Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Amazing debut book by author Emily Carpenter. Southern gothic at it's best.

This is one of the books that you start to read wondering how everything will go and end ub very pleasantly surprised.

Althea Bell returns home after a stint in rehab to find her father almost gone to sickness, both physical and mental, and her wannabe politician brother and perfectly square sister in law, living in the family home. The last thing they want is to have her return and embarrass the family

Althea's been a mess ever since her mother died when she was young. Also, the women in her family have a breakdown just before they turn 30 and are committed to a psychiatric clinic. Now she wants both to avoid being locked up and to find out what drives the women in the family to the mental asylum.

The book is written in Althea's perspective, but it is also the story of Jinn, her great grandmother, the original honeysuckle girl

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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