Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

The significance of flowers in the novel is so creative, and I never would have thought that flower hunting was actually a thing. The story becomes even more intense as orchid thieves are involved and fighting becomes an element. This book tells the story of a young girl who travels to China with her father to search for a rare orchid. The Forbidden Orchid has such a unique and intriguing concept. Though the book seems incredible already, there are three different settings, including China, making the story unforgettable. An interesting and complex father/daughter relationship makes this book even more believable. The Forbidden Orchid by Sharon Biggs Waller is a one of a kind book all about a hunt for a rare and valuable orchid. The Forbidden Orchid, SHaron Biggs Waller This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. But now, even if she can find the orchid, how can she ever go back to being the staid, responsible Elodie that everybody needs? She has never before left her village, but what starts as fear turns to wonder as she adapts to seafaring life aboard the tea clipper The Osprey, and later to the new sights, dangers, and romance of China.

He will be thrown into debtors’ prison while his daughters are sent to the orphanage and the workhouse.Įlodie can’t stand by and see her family destroyed, so she persuades her father to return to China once more to try to hunt down the flower-only this time, despite everything she knows about her place in society, Elodie goes with him. Buchanan reneges on his contract to collect an extremely rare and valuable orchid.

The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually off adventuring through China. Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of ten sisters living in a small English market town in 1861.

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller