Flowering series
Reading Order Note: Forget Me Not, Lily of the Valley, and Blue Rose can be
read in any order. There is some crossover in scenes between the titles, but
each stands alone as one character's story. Star of Bethlehem is a direct continuation
from Forget Me Not and Lily of the Valley. Orange Blossom and Ambrosia assume readers
have read the other four titles and read as sequels, although no title has a
cliffhanger and you could still read them as standalones.
Orange Blossom
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Title: Orange Blossom
Author: Sarah Daltry
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“I’ve never understood a year. A year
was always a measurement of something bad for me. A year in my father’s prison sentence,
a year since my mom’s death, a year left of school before I could get far, far
away from here. Now, as I look down the end of my college career, with only a
little more than a semester to go, a year seems like something magical. It has
been a year since Lily chose me, since she sat with me on the old swing set and
made a decision that I was worthy of her. And every minute of the entire year
has been better than the last.”
You
already know their stories: Lily, the perfect princess, always living someone
else’s life. And Jack, the broken boy, who had stopped believing in hope.
Somehow, though, they found each other and what was one night blossomed into a
love story.
Now,
a year later, Jack and Lily are dreaming of the future. Despite all of his promises
to himself that he would never be indebted to anyone, Jack makes a new promise
– this time to Lily – that he will be there for her forever. But when life
unravels for them, he starts to pull away, and Lily worries he’s out of reach
for good.
When
Jack does the unthinkable, Lily is left destroyed. Is it possible to have a
happily ever after? Does love ever really save anyone?
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I was given book for honest review. Jack and Lily are on the verge of graduation. Looking toward the future. The characters continue to grow together and as a couple. In this book Lily’s parents play a part in developing their relationship further. Encourage you to read and discover if it’s a good/bad development. This series gets under your skin. The emotions it invokes will leave you wanting more.
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“I don’t have a ring, and I don’t have
anything planned. I was going to plan something. It was going to be big and
special and important, but I can’t. I can’t wait to tell you. I love you, Lily.
You make me happy, as if that’s something that can even be real for me. I know
you can probably think of a million places more romantic than the cemetery, but
this is my family, and this is me, in all that I can offer. It’s nothing much,
but you’ve made me believe that it might be good enough for you. You’ve changed
my life, Lily. And I want to make you a part of the rest of it. Forever. I want
you forever.”
She’s crying as she looks down at me on
the ground. “What are you saying, Jack?”
“Marry me, princess? Not now, or really
anytime soon. I don’t know when. I have very little to give you. I don’t even
know when I can afford a ring. I was going to go look for one this week,
although it will probably be tiny and nothing that can represent how much I
love you and how much you deserve. I know I’m not what you pictured when you
were a little girl and you wanted a husband or whatever, but Lily, I love you
more than anyone else can. And I want you to be my wife, whatever that means,
because I can’t imagine one day of a future that doesn’t have you in it.”
She lifts me to my feet and hugs me.
“Yes, of course. I don’t care about a ring or even a wedding. I just want you.
Forever. Nothing else is important to me. I will never not love you. Whatever
you want to call that, I’m happy to be a part of it. I have two years left of
school, but I can promise you that, in two years or fifty, at the end of it,
you’re the future for me.”
We kiss and I wish it was epic and
fireworks shot through the sky, but it’s not. It’s just me and Lily, holding
each other like we do most nights, but I’m kissing my fiancée and that has some
kind of importance to it. I believe my mom would be happy for me, because I
need to believe it. The whole night, the holiday, the setting, the awkward
proposal even, it’s all how it should be, because, although it’s not something
people tell their kids twenty years down the road, it’s so real to us.
Ambrosia
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Title: AmbrosiaAuthor: Sarah Daltry
Cover: Shoutlines Design
Four
years. One night that was supposed to be an escape turned into four years. And
now, four years is about to turn into forever.
Lily
was never anything special. A perfect girl from a perfect world living an empty
life. She was lost, thinking she knew who she was and what she wanted. She
thought she knew love, but then there was a boy.
Jack
has been through Hell. Watching his mother die - at his father’s hands - will
never leave him. He had given up on living a life, figuring he would drink
himself to death, if he didn’t give in to all the voices telling him to kill
himself first. And then there was a girl who smelled like strawberries.
Two
years have passed since Orange Blossom.
Jack and Lily are only months away from their wedding and their journey is
about to come to an end. Join them in the final title in the Flowering series, a story of growing up,
of finding yourself, and of “blooming.”
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Review
With this book we bid farewell to the journey of Jack and Lily. After all that this series has been through must say that Sarah Daltry gave Jack and Lily a most perfect ending. Love actually does change and conquer all.
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After driving for two hours and a three
hour seminar session, I’m exhausted. I take out my cell to text Jack and ask if
he wants to order dinner tonight, because there is no way I even have the
energy to go through a drive-thru. I notice as I look at my phone that I have
twenty-six texts. That’s right – twenty-six. All sent between nine this morning
and noon. All from my mother. They grow increasingly frantic, as if texts just
shoot directly into my brain and notify me that she has something “very important”
to ask me. I wish I had never given her my number. More, I wish I had never
taught her how to text, because she seems to think it’s the same thing as
actually speaking, and then she gets agitated when I don’t reply.
The last one she sent is incoherent. Just
a lot of random letters and punctuation. I would worry that something was
actually wrong, but my dad and Jon didn’t text. If something had happened, they
would have as well. Instead, it’s just endless streams of urgency from my
mother.
I leave my stuff in the library and go
back outside to call her. She answers almost immediately. “I have been trying
to reach you all morning,” she says.
“I had class.”
“But I texted you.”
“Right, but I still had class.”
“Okay, well, two things. First, we need
to confirm the DJ. Have you done that yet? Did you meet with him? Do you know
what time he’s setting up?”
“I’ll call him when I get off the phone
with you. Sorry. It slipped my mind.”
There is a lengthy pause. She’s trying.
I keep telling myself that, because it keeps me sane. A few years ago, I would
have gotten quite the tirade about forgetting to call the DJ. Instead, she’s
practicing deep breathing, which she learned about in yoga. My existence has
led her to yoga.
“I promise. I’ll call,” I tell her.
“Okay. The second thing is that your
father wants to put down a deposit for your honeymoon this week. Gail has been
checking in and we don’t have an answer for her, so you have to pick something.
I don’t like having to keep making Gail wait.” Gail is the travel agent my
parents use. Everyone in my parents’ life is a long-lost friend; there is no
such thing as Expedia.
“Can I let you know tomorrow?”
“I suppose, but haven’t you talked
about it?” she asks.
“We have, but Jack feels silly taking
your money. Maybe we’ll just do a weekend away at the Cape or something.”
The deep breathing resumes. People in
my mother’s life don’t do weekends away at the Cape; they own houses there.
About the
Author
Sarah
Daltry is a girl who writes books. The books are in all genres, because Sarah’s
not so great at committing to things. She’s happily married and she and her
husband live with their cats in New England. Sarah is painfully shy and, if you
are able to find her, she is probably in a corner, hiding. She also wrote Bitter Fruits, Backward Compatible: A Geek
Love Story, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Modern Reimagining, and The Quiver of a Kiss: The Seduction of Helen
of Troy, as well as several short stories and works of erotica.
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Top Ten: Author’s Favorite Book Boyfriends:
Jake Barnes – The
Sun Also RisesHolden Caulfield – The Catcher in the Rye
Heathcliff – Wuthering Heights
Rochester – Jane Eyre
Will – Clockwork Angel
Etienne – Anna and the French Kiss
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Ian – The Host
Bru – Summer Sisters
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