Karen’s Reviews > The Botanist's Assistant > Status Update

Great characters in good scenes.

Quirky: generally assigned to a weirdish young girl who doesn’t fit the norms but is influenced by a childhood experience.
Batty: generally assigned to older women who don’t fit the norms but are shaped by a vast number of past experiences.
Margaret is batty.

You know, the more I read about Margaret, the more I see myself in her. Yikes!

Ah, the internal politics of college society.

Margaret, the main character, grows on me. No botany pun intended. Plus she has great taste in mystery writers. Intrigued by this research assistant who feels enough to grapple with her boss’s death.