nastashastarr3 's review for:

The Poppy and the Rose by Ashlee Cowles
5.0

I recieved an e-arc of this from netgalley for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The start of this book made my heart soar with affection.  The treasure hunt that the dad put together was incredibly sweet. Taylor loosing her father made me feel incredibly sad for her and then loosing her house as well because of memories really hit hard for me.

The story starts off with Taylor arriving in England and is already thrown into the deep end of meeting a mysterious chauffeur called Nathaniel. He speaks of the mysterious Lady Knight. It is shown that Taylor is in England on a summer scholarship, and to uncover some questions she has about a photograph of her father and a mysterious woman in the UK. With the quick death of Lady Knight, only one day after she gives Taylor a letter from a woman called Ava and her expierence with the titanic. Will Taylor ever get answers or will she continue to just have more questions?

I found this hard to get into at the beginning, but the story gripped me and I found myself unable to put this book down at all...I ignored all notifications on my phone as I read this!

Ava had an absolutely beautiful and tragic story told in past tense as Taylor reads her memoir from the Titanic and after.

Taylor also had such an interesting storyline and I never knew where it would take me.

The ending wrapped everything up nicely and I really enjoyed it. The ending was effortlessly beautiful.

I throughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who loves a beautifully descriptive and well written story!