Review: This is easily one of the best and most heart wrenching book I’ve ever read to date.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
There’s a puffy, bloodshot-eyed zombie roaming around our house, thrashing, crying and screaming I’m not okay. She’s a new breed created by the epidemic Hothouse Flower.I’ve been waiting for this book since forever. I went in expecting something fluffy and a little bit of crying, but I was wrong. Hothouse Flower is told from alternating points of view of Ryke and Daisy. I shipped them from the very start. They both stole my heart in Ricochet.  They’re going to melt your heart, make it all gooey, and probably make you bawl in their own book.We all know why the equation R + D can’t ever happen. He’s twenty five. She’s finally eighteen. But that doesn’t sound as easy as it looks. Ryke knew Daisy when she was 15, 16, 17, and, aside from their ‘problematic’ age gap, there are a lot of roadblocks and hindrances they need to overcome, like a disapproving mom, a not-so-pleased brother, the media, lots of family drama & their own inner demons.I’ve never been so in love with a book and characters before that I constantly feel like my heart is going to burst out of my chest. Yes! I’m talking about Hothouse Flower and the Addicted Series. Krista and Becca never fail to remind me why they’re one of my favorite pairs of authors and why I read books. It’s very difficult for me to articulate my feelings and put them into words. All I can say is that it hit me harder than I thought it would. Hothouse Flower is raw and painful. It left me with undeniable ache.Every single thing and element about this book is fully fleshed out and it’s something I highly praise. Like always, the characters are drawn brilliantly. They’re deep, complex and real. Probably one of the most beautiful sets of characters I’ve ever encountered. The romance is perfect. It’s everything I had hoped for and wanted. I could see it coming who would initiate the relationship. (Hah!) I’m sorry I just had to bring that up. It’s my badass I-told-you-so moment. Other than the 1, 2 ,3 ,4, 5, 6 common things that I’ve anticipated. The rest is holy cow unpredictable. A lot of times, I find myself wanting to bury myself alive because I cannot believe that just happened. Wait. What. What. It can’t. Exactly, that’s the picture.Aside from the romance, what I love the most in the book is the emotional impact of the media, family ordeal/drama and how their parents and upbringing affected them. For me the astonishing aspect of this novel is that our loved ones make mistakes, they make bad calls. No reasons can ever justify those. It will affect us, It will destroy us. But it’s our decision if we’re going to let it haunt us forever. Its deeply emotional read for me that has had me all choked up. It’s amazing because these things do happened in real life. We lived in this story. One way or another this book has something that will touch your heart.In each chapter, all of the emotions are heightened and are always tangible. Hothouse Flower is about guilt, pain, misery, grief, forgiveness, discovering yourself, the power of friendship, family, relationship and, most importantly, love.Reading Krista and Becca’s books once is simply not enough. You’ll go back to it every day and if not, every once in a while, just like home. After all of the heart-break I went through with Hothouse Flower, I couldn’t be anymore happy how it all turns out. This is easily one of the best and most heart wrenching book I’ve ever read to date.