According to the book description, Flowertown is a high-intensity conspiracy thriller that brings the worst-case scenario vividly to life and will keep readers riveted until the final haunting page.
I disagree. Yes, there was a conspiracy. Yes, there was worst-case scenario, but it didn't vividly come to life for me. Riveted is not a word I would use to describe my feelings towards the book. "Final haunting page", more like "final annoying page."
Here is a short summary of what the book is about. Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, scores of people died. Contamination survivors were herded into a US Army medically maintained quarantine and cut off from the world. Survivors are dosed with powerful drugs to combat the poison; chief among the side effects is their bodies give off a sickly sweet smell. So with a town full of medicated folks oozing the sweet smell from the their pores, the seven (7) square-mile containment zone becomes known simply as Flowertown.
The main character, our heroine, Ellie, has been in quarantine for seven (7) years in Flowertown where the city infrastructure is crumbling, supplies are dwindling, and nobody is getting clean. Ellie Cauley doesn’t care anymore. Despite her paranoid best friend's insistence that conspiracies abound, she focuses on three things: staying high, hooking up with the Army sergeant she's not supposed to be fraternizing with and, most importantly, trying to ignore her ever-simmering rage.
A series of deadly events rocks the compound and Ellie discovers something dangerous is going down in Flowertown with all signs pointing to a twisted plan of greed and abuse. She and the other residents of Flowertown have been betrayed by someone with a deadly agenda. Without no one to trust and nowhere
to go, Ellie decides to fight with the last weapon she has—her rage.
I gave this book 1 star out of 5 stars. For me, characters were almost flat; personalities uni-dimensional. The characters don't experience personal growth or undergo any type of transformation. The plot twists were fairly predictable for the most part. I can see this book turned into a B-movie shown a Saturday afternoon on the SyFy channel; it's interesting enough to be a bad movie, but not enough to make it a good soft sci-fi novel.
My rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 out of 5 stars)
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