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The Lost Apothecary

Sarah Penner

Start date: September 1, 2022

Finish date: September 30, 2022

Discussion: Group Books of the Month (BotM)

Why we're reading this: Chosen by group members as a group BotM for September 2022.

Previously chosen by group members as our "fl…more
[close] Chosen by group members as a group BotM for September 2022.

Previously chosen by group members as our "flowers on the cover" themed group read for May 2021.

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Jul 05, 2021 Ami rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, chick-lit, historical, contemporary, audio-books, 18th-century, 21st-century, the-uk, mpov, 2021

One Sad Star. The cover is beautiful, super intriguing synopsis, everyone was raving and I waited months for it but the narrators were poorly chosen and it came incredibly close to being a DNF. I only completed it to answer a couple of questions that arose while reading a few reviews.

This should have been amazing, but everything is so improbable, outlandish, unrealistic and unimaginative that I'm tempted to mark this as science-fiction and alternate reality.

The contemporary main character is inc ...more

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Dec 26, 2021 Trisha rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction

A very interesting novel, told from two different perspectives/times. The plot line was incredibly interesting, and it had some great twists. Highly enjoyable!

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Mar 17, 2021 Haley rated it really liked it

Shelves: botm

I've really come to love books about magic and potions during quarantine so this piqued my interest right from the beginning. This is a dual-timeline story that follows Nella and Eliza in the 1790s and Catherine in the present-day. Sometimes with dual timeline stories, I prefer 1 timeline over the other but with this story I couldn't get enough of either timeline.

Catherine, upon finding out about her husbands infidelity, goes to London to spend their 10 year anniversary vacation alone. She ends ...more

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Feb 19, 2022 Melissa Miller rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I liked the story. The writing was a little lacking. So much more could have been done with this novel. I would have like to see more. With that being said, it did keep my attention and I was able to finish it within a week. Had it not been as interesting, I would have given up on it awhile ago.

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Sep 11, 2022 Christie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio

I was worried about this one after reading some of the reviews, but I liked the idea of this book and I gave it a chance. It thought it was good. It was not amazing, but good. I feel that we could have had one more Eliza chapter at the end, but it was a good book.

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Apr 19, 2021 Momruns5 rated it liked it

Shelves: 2021, 2021-listened

There is no way a budding, or any historian, would throw an old bottle that is central to her PhD or leave out an essential part of the story. Leaving out this incredible part saves no one!! Why??? A few parts just felt a little unrealistic to me.

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Mar 17, 2021 Aimee marked it as to-read