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The Scent Keeper
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A coming of age story mixed with a small amount of magical realism. It is reminiscent of Sarah Addison Allen's lovely books. It took me well over a hundred pages to really start getting into this story of Emmeline. In fact I set it aside for a short time after a particular incident that disturbed my sensitive nature regarding animals.
It is a story of how scents are connected to memories, but we often miss those scents around us because we are awash in so much sensory stimuli. Emmeline seems to have a special gift for scents and for half her childhood she was raised on an uninhabited island where there was little to inhibit the development of that gift.
It is also a story of secrets and how they can hurt us both when kept & revealed.
I didn't melt into this novel like I did with her first book The School of Essential Ingredients, but once I began to really find interest in the story & characters, I liked the substance and how it unfolded.
It is a story of how scents are connected to memories, but we often miss those scents around us because we are awash in so much sensory stimuli. Emmeline seems to have a special gift for scents and for half her childhood she was raised on an uninhabited island where there was little to inhibit the development of that gift.
It is also a story of secrets and how they can hurt us both when kept & revealed.
I didn't melt into this novel like I did with her first book The School of Essential Ingredients, but once I began to really find interest in the story & characters, I liked the substance and how it unfolded.
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November 7, 2020
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"I rarely read a book by the same author close together & it wasn't my intent but I was telling a colleague about Bauermeister's debut novel & lo and behold she had just finished the most recent offering by the author & lent it to me. Again, it starts out with some beautifully poetic writing."
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November 14, 2020
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""If you want to work with a genius, you usually aren't signing up for easy."
Boy, isn't that the truth!!!!"
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Boy, isn't that the truth!!!!"
November 14, 2020
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general-fiction
November 14, 2020
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magical-realism
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