Flowers for Meg

by Erin Lee, Rena Marin

Meg. Not Megan or Meghan or even Margaret.Just Meg.Her name was as simple as her world.Every day was the same. With a piping hot cup of coffee, she’d stroll from her dingy bedroom to a dusty office across the hall. She’d issue orders to people she didn’t care to know. She’d fire them because she could and cared zero about how it hurt the minimum wage 1099 gig employees struggling to make ends meet.It would not matter to Meg that one stayed home with her dying husband and disabled daughter. She could care less about the single mother trying to put her twins through school with three jobs. The fact that Meg’s employees were counting on every scrap of work they could get to pay for medications and rents would be of no consequence. Hell, it gave her more power. Meg had no life and couldn’t imagine anyone else would either. It was really that simple – to her. At 5 p.m. on the dot, she’d turn her notifications off and eat grape pop tarts for dinner. By eight, she was back to her room with only a single light on and no plans. Tomorrow would be the same. She liked it that way. Alone but not bitter.Until one day. Until the day the pink flowers came with a note attached and a wayward link and everything in Meg’s simple life began to shatter.

190 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Erin Lee is a USA TODAY bestselling multi genre author and therapist chasing a crazy dream one crazy story at a time. She also writes under the name EL George.

She is the author of Crazy Like Me, a novel published in 2015 by Savant Books and Publications, LLC,, Wave to Papa, 2015, by Limitless Publishing, LLC and Nine Lives (2016). She’s also author of Alters, Host, and Merge of the “Lola, Party of Eight Series,” When I’m Dead, 99 Bottles and too many other titles to count.

She penned the award-winning Freak, an LGBTQ awareness novella and Losing Faith, a novella with Black Rose Writing.

Lee has published numerous magazine articles, particularly on the topic of mental illness and works tirelessly to help end stigma around psychological conditions. She holds a master’s degree in psychology and works with at-risk families and as a court appointed special advocate. She often writes about real life people and situations she encounters in this work; which can be more horrific than any horror movie or documentary.

Lee is most well known as author of the DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER SERIES with Zombie Cupcake Press and From Russia, With Love with Bella Tulip Publishing and many more.

She believes in supporting other authors and experimenting with new genres. Her passion is reaching people through their stories.

Reviews

[Peter Topside · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. This wasn't bad. Had good bones to it, but it was sort of all over the place. I really disliked the alternating POV between Gina, Meg, and Sarah. It would have worked much better if it stuck with Meg, as we would get an extremely deep dive into her twisted mentality. Seeing the steps she took and the great lengths she went to terrorize her subordinates would have made it all work better. Especially the eventual culmination between the three characters. As it was, it just felt like rushed snapshots of each woman that were frantically mushed together by the end. So it needed to have a more focused approach and also not attempt to introduce too many plot points, which was another fault here. Again, if you wanted to focus on the troubles of Sarah, for instance, stick with that and don't crowd the spotlight. And the ending just felt incomplete and really underwhelming. I know that this sounds like I'm taking the story to the woodshed, but I did enjoy the concept and structure of the book. There were just a lot of barriers that took away from, what should have been, a much better experience.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love when these two fabulous authors write together, and the blurb of this story sounded like one they could both do a lot with to entertain the reader.
Meg was such a deplorable human being, and I felt for Sarah and Gina as they fell victim to her. I so wanted her to get what was coming to her.
This story had twists and turns and had my blood boiling with rage for Meg and her attitude towards others.
The race to the ending was filled with drama and intensity. This was an awesome story, and I wouldn't be sorry to see Sarah and Gina again in a future book.

[Kayla Krantz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gina and Sarah are freelance writers, working at the same company for the same terrible boss, Meg. They take the brunt of her abuse, doing what they can to hang on. When Sarah’s fired, however, she’s had enough. Sarah and Gina make a decision that will change the entire course of the company forever.

I adore this book. It was dark and gritty and suspenseful. I didn’t know what would happen next, and at the climax of the story, I simply couldn’t stop reading. Loved that twist at the end too. Fantastic little psychological thriller from the minds of Lee and Marin.

[Diana | Indie Book Addict · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lee and Marin did a wonderful job with this book. I'm pretty sure they have created the first character I have ever really hated. Everything about Meg was horrible. What a miserable person! They captured all of this very well in the book. When Gina and Sarah got together I could not wait to see what they had planned for Meg. I wanted to see them get revenge for all of the evil things Meg had done.

The twists and darkness make this a great read! I couldn't put it down!

[Monique Welch · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was not my favorite. I was mainly just curious what the plot was about because I could not find a plot summary online so I ended up just reading it, but it was not anything special for me personally.