A review by charsiew21
City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman

3.0

And this is where the Stavaganza series starts to wane a tiny bit? I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first two, mainly because I felt that parts of the plot were just...loose. Perhaps it's because there are a couple of threads that Hoffman plans to take up in previous books. And with someone like Rowling I'd feel like I was in capable hands and all would be explained/sorted out eventually. But at the end of City of Flowers, I just felt as if parts of the plot could have been done better. That and the profusion of characters in this book as opposed to the first two meant that I just wasn't as engaged as with the first two.

But perhaps this is an endorsement, as a die-hard completist I'm more than likely to read book four.