White Oleander

Wasn't for me. Honestly, I just didn't care much about anything. Didn't click with the writing from the beginning, it is too descriptive. Not every single sentence has to have a flowery writing and similes, methaphors and the like. In fact, it's about knowing when to do it and stir the reader's emotions. Some people have said the book is one of those angsty novels where the author makes the main character go through the worse things imaginable just for the sake of it or for the shock value. Having read 30% of White Oleander I see how that may be true.