Helpful Score: 9
Normally I pretty much stay with the same authors and read every book that they write hardly ever reading anyone else. The Blood of Flowers was very much worth the time. The book centers around the hardships that a young girl has to endure in 17th century Persia. The only negative thing I have to say about the book is it ends VERY abruptly. The entire book is thoroughly told in detail except for the last quarter where the author seems to kind of rush through the story line. Nevertheless you are still completely into the story and once you get closer to the end you turn the next page thinking the story is going to go on ( at the end of the book there is an interview with the author I didn't know about so I thought the book was about 30 pages longer) and all of a sudden you realize it's the last page. This may be because she plans on writing a sequel to the first. But it is very much worth the time and I would recommend it.
Helpful Score: 8
This is an excellent book. It digs deep into a past culture and the persian rug making industry of that time. It has a rythmn to its writing that sucks you into the fables that are intertwined. You can smell and feel the places the character is going. Nothing really graphic or offensive.
Helpful Score: 3
The title of the book, The Blood of Flowers, is drawn from a poem called "Ode to a Garden Carpet", and carpets are at the center of the novel. The story takes place in Isfahan, Iran about 1620 when Iranian carpets were prized around the world. The story is about a poor country girl who loses her father at a young age and is then forced, with her mother, into a different life than that she had hoped to have.
Helpful Score: 2
A beautiful story about a girl's troubles and triumphs as her circumstances change drastically. I didn't realize what a jem this book would be when I picked it up but I throughly enjoyed it and it was one of those I just couldn't put down. I have recommended to several of my friends.
Helpful Score: 2
This debut novel is beautifully written and offers everything I look for in entertainment reading: a beautifully-crafted story that allows you to immerse yourself with each character, a historic setting that is well research and an overall visual richness. This is a completely enjoyable book. Anita Amirrezvani has done an excellent job. I hope to see more of her work in the future.
