Margo W. (wanderingstar) reviewed on 12/24/2010

Helpful Score: 1

I ended up loving Morton's first novel, "The House at Riverton." But I was disappointed in her second, "The Forgotten Garden." She uses many of the same plot devices in both novels, but to less effect in the second, which continually flashes forward and backward among 3 different women from 3 generations. The mystery is less urgent and less interesting here than in The House at Riverton, and, for me, the characters less varied and narrow. I had a hard time reading to the end, perhaps because I didn't have much emotion or interest invested in the plot or characters this time around.

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