{"id":1288,"date":"2021-06-21T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2021-12-18T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T12:38:08","slug":"the-lost-apothecary-by-sarah-penner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/the-lost-apothecary-by-sarah-penner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute & Predictable: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lost Apothecary: A Novel<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was a cute albeit a predictable read. I’ll keep this simple and tell you what I liked vs what I didn’t like as much about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things I liked:<\/em><\/strong>
– the multiple POVs;
– girl power!;
– clear distinction between both timelines (we follow two characters, one in the past, one in the present);
– the love of research all characters have;
– a different sort of sightseeing in London;
– making new friends in unexpected places;
– lastly, this stunning cover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things I didn’t like as much:<\/em><\/strong>
– the ‘soap opera’ style plot twist with Caroline’s family life;
– I didn’t predict the ending itself but several plot points are indeed predictable;
– I thought I was reading YA the whole time even though the characters are adults;
– writing was relatively simple, for a book dealing with herbs, remedies, etc. I’ve thought it’d be a bit more on the flowery side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, happy to have read it and the audiobook was the right choice for me. A good author debut indeed, we’ll see if it’ll be a memorable one down the line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you read this? What did you think? <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was a cute albeit a predictable read. I’ll keep this simple and tell you what I liked vs what I didn’t like as much about it. Things I liked:– the multiple POVs;– girl...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[478,477],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","tag-sarah-penner","tag-the-lost-apothecary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pexels-vlada-karpovich-4050315.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}