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Samantha Cohoe

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*I got this book form the publisher for my honest thoughts*

I really did enjoy this read. I really loved the time period of this read and all the talk about alchemy and it was fast pace novel at the start. I really liked all the different setting that was featured in this book. I thought the end of this book has some pacing issues and felt it was very rushed at points. I did really liked the side characters in this read. I also really liked how this book tackled some harder elements like addiction to magic. That is element of books that I really enjoyed. I also really liked Bee as a character and one character i simply adored. If you are looking for heavy romance plot, this may not be the read for you but i have hope for more romance in book 2. A very fun read and one that has several spooky setting perfectly for the fall.… (mehr)
 
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lmauro123 | 16 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 28, 2023 |
*I got this book form the publisher for my honest thoughts*

I really did enjoy this read. I really loved the time period of this read and all the talk about alchemy and it was fast pace novel at the start. I really liked all the different setting that was featured in this book. I thought the end of this book has some pacing issues and felt it was very rushed at points. I did really liked the side characters in this read. I also really liked how this book tackled some harder elements like addiction to magic. That is element of books that I really enjoyed. I also really liked Bee as a character and one character i simply adored. If you are looking for heavy romance plot, this may not be the read for you but i have hope for more romance in book 2. A very fun read and one that has several spooky setting perfectly for the fall.… (mehr)
 
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lmauro123 | 16 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 28, 2023 |
5-Star Read! I loved this book and was pleasantly surprised by it and how much I enjoyed it. After reading this book, I realized I've read Samantha Cohoe before with Golden Fury and that book was amazing also and got me a bit creeped out, but this book was just as good maybe even better. There was swoon-worthy romance, family/friends, a different magic setup than I've seen before which was great and intriguing. I'm hoping that there will be another book where I can maybe learn more about the magic with the spirits on the island. This is about Mae who's only ever lived on the island with the Prosper family and wants to figure out a way to learn and have the magic of her own. It's also about Mae deciding who she is, what she wants, and what she wants to do to get it. This is about how the magic and the system of things with the spirits on the island for years basically fall apart and chaos breaks loose and they're all left to figure out what to do. I'm so glad that I got to read this book and can't wait for the next one hopefully there's a continuation and a next book because the way the end was left I am going crazy to know what happens next. This is a fantastic read, go get it, you won't be disappointed.
Thanks so much to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press/Wednesday Books for the chance to read and review this amazing story. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Kiaya40 | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 19, 2023 |
Thanks so much to Wednesday Books/St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for letting me read and review this intriguing, gripping, and creepy story. I knew this story was about alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone, but I didn't realize how much of a creepiness factor was going to be in it until I was reading about madness in the middle of the night and was a bit jumpy when I saw a shadow move.
This is a great read especially for this time of year and it was a very well done debut novel. I finished it only the other day and I haven't stopped thinking about it or the parts that made me a little freaked out. If you're like me and more sensitive to creepy and scary things, you might not want to read this late at night at least not without a light on.
This book is about a girl, Thea Hope, who wants to be an alchemist like her famous mother and wants to make a name for herself so she doesn't have to rely on the fame and notoriety of her mother. She and her mother are working together to create The Philosopher's Stone to attain immortality and wealth. They get so close to getting it when her mother destroys it in a fit of madness.
So, Thea goes to read through her mother's notes about creating The Stone and discovers there's a curse on The Stone that is said to cause anyone who tries to make it to go mad. Also at this time, there's a revolution about to happen and so Thea's mother sends her to live with the father she has never known and who doesn't know of her existence either.
Others want The Stone as well and don't believe Thea when she tries to warn them about how it can cause a person to lose their mind and go mad. When she goes to meet her father to introduce herself to live with him, he's an alchemist as well and she takes her mother's notes with her to try to do The Stone again herself. She ends up finding a boy who she had loved and lost a year earlier, he'd moved away to England from where he was with her and her mother in France and finds him very sick and decides that she wants to help those she loves to be healed by creating The Stone.
She ends up after trial and error, discovering that herself and others who try to do anything with creating The Stone will go mad that if she really does want to heal and help those she loves as well as making a name for herself than she has to make The Stone and sacrifice her sanity or let her loved ones die.
There is adventure, twists and turns, and a lot about mental illness and madness in connection to the Philosopher's Stone throughout this story that makes it more unnerving and creepy. It also is a story about family relationships, how they're messy, and figuring things out for yourself, who you are, and who you want to be in your life.
It's also about deciding how much and how far you're willing to go to achieve your dreams and what you're willing to sacrifice or give up to attain them. There's a lot packed into this and yet it's also a fun creepy take on alchemy, an alchemist's curse, and The Philosopher Stone.
For CW/TW - there's a lot about madness and mental illness, also some self-harm other than those things if they're something that might bother you, there isn't really any other major things I can recall after reading.
If you love reading historical fiction, creepy stories, stories about alchemy, curses, magic, love, and the like then make sure to go pick this one up and check it out now!
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Kiaya40 | 16 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 19, 2023 |

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