Return to the Secret Garden by Susan Moody

And finally, if there are readers who have actually and in fact enjoyed Return to the Secret Garden, that is absolutely fine and not in any way a problem for me (but personally, I have vehemently despised and continue to despise Return to the Secret Garden as one of the most distasteful and frustrating pieces of groan-worthy junk I have ever read). And please note that this is my personal opinion. I thus would honestly NOT recommend Return to the Secret Garden to anyone, but especially if you are a true fan of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, you should totally and absolutely avoid Return to the Secret Garden like the proverbial plague (as it, as the story presented will likely anger you in much the same way it has angered and infuriated me). But the massive changes to the characters (characters whom I adore, and to whom I have always had an almost magical attachment) and the fact that the novel tends to read rather like a cheap and gossipy trash-romance has made me despise Return to the Secret Garden to such an extent that I truly and honestly never was really even able to notice or more to the point care all that much about the author's writing style, about Susan Moody's narrative flow, word building etc., so massively angered was I at and by the contents, the themes (and indeed, Return to the Secret Garden is also one of the very few books that I actually ever seriously considered burning or tossing into the garbage).

However, Susan Moody changing Colin into a bisexual, who calls out Dickons's name while being intimate with Mary and so on and so on was and still is not in any even conceivable way my idea of a remotely acceptable sequel to The Secret Garden by any stretch of the (of my) imagination.Īnd yes, for those individuals (for those readers) who might try to claim that Susan Moody's writing is interesting and that one should give this book a chance, well, I really did try to give Return to the Secret Garden more than a chance.

Now indeed, I would not have minded if the author, if Susan Moody had altered her featured characters somewhat (I mean, children do grow up, and they do change), and I would also not have even minded some controversial, adult topics appearing in Return to the Secret Garden. I do not (and this thankfully so) remember all that much about Susan Moody's Return to the Secret Garden except that I indeed have found it absolutely and totally horrid and consider it a massive and unforgivable insult to both Frances Hodgson Burnett and anyone who has read and loved The Secret Garden.

Return to the Secret Garden by Susan Moody