The Dark Rose

this is a book about two damaged people finding comfort in each other, as their pasts crouch in the shadows and say "not so fast, guys..." it is a breezy and tragic story that will creep up on you with its questions and solutions. its action bounces two characters back and forth in time: a teenager's......more

I've got to stop reading so many books by authors I've already read. But when I saw this was being released, just a couple of months after I read The Poison Tree, I couldn't resist it. Erin Kelly's debut was a book with enormous promise which was almost ruined by the inclusion of some rather pedestr......more

2.5 stars This was my third book by Erin Kelly, and in my opinion, the weakest. BURNING AIR, I felt, was the most engaging, despite POISON TREE getting all the accolades. In any case, the plot of THE DARK ROSE was interesting and I was pulled in quickly, however, it stagnated after a while, and I felt......more

This book had SUCH potential, and I found myself really getting into it, but unfortunately it just ended with me scratching my head and saying, "...Really?" I can't tell whether Erin Kelly just didn't know what she really had here or if she thought she could throw in one huge twist and that not foll......more

This is a dark and compelling read about Louisa a 39 year old woman who is hiding from her past and working on restoring an Elizabethan garden in Kelstice in Warwickshire. We meet her at the start of th1e book dressing up in the same clothes as she wore as a 19 year old in 1989 when she was in a rel......more