WHAT THE FLOWER SAYS OF DEATH by Danielle Koste!

WHAT THE FLOWER SAYS OF DEATH

Author: Danielle Koste
Series: N/A
Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: September 25, 2018

Summary:
Violet Holt has already met Death once.

After a failed suicide attempt, she finds herself dumped by her callous mother on the doorstep of her family’s desolate oceanside estate. With only the company of her estranged grandmother, comatose grandfather, and the monsters in her head, at least there was no one to interfere with her plans to try again on her eighteenth birthday.

No one, except maybe Jack: a skeleton of a boy who says he’s there to rake her grandmother’s leaves, yet seems more experienced at stalking than grounds-keeping. She knows he’s keeping a secret behind his gentle smiles and aloofness, but it’s difficult for Violet to be put off by his untimely thin-air appearances when figuring out the mystery of his true identity makes for such a good distraction.

Violet’s trauma is deeper than the wound on her wrist though, and it cannot be simply whisked away in a whirlwind of guessing games and pleasant gestures. She struggles to reconnect with her grandmother, find forgiveness for her mother, and closure with her grandfather’s dire condition, all while battling the strain of it all on her family. Even with a flicker of something hopeful blossoming within herself, Violet knows her birthday plans must be inevitable.

Death wouldn’t be there for her if it wasn’t.

Describe your book in 10 words or less.

Danielle Koste: WHAT THE FLOWER SAYS OF DEATH is: A love story. Violet, learning to love herself and life.

What do you hope readers take away from this novel?

Danielle Koste: WtFSoD is a story about beginnings. I’d like people to take from Violet’s story that it’s never too late to make those hard decisions, to stop running from the things that scare you the most, and that endings aren’t really endings, they’re just the beginning of a new chapter.