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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

18 reviews

bookworm247's review

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Excrement, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

jaynovara's review

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

kyrstin_p1989's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book started a little slow but once I got a few chapters in, I was hooked. The concept of an apothecary in the 1700’s having been run by a woman in order to help women kill the men who treated them poorly is such a creative and fascinating concept for a novel. This book makes use of shifting narrators, including one from present day, which I really enjoyed for the telling of this story. I enjoyed the ending. The characters were likeable & the story was engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Self harm, Pregnancy, Murder, and Medical trauma

annieliz's review

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Abortion, Body horror, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Vomit

blessing_aj's review

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Murder, and Self harm

nthomas4's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Misogyny, and Infidelity

kenziereads11's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I loved this book. The ending/last 100 pages completely caught me off guard with multiple plot twists. I love how the main character chose herself in the end. Definitely one of my new fav reads of 2021. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, and Infidelity

talknerdybookblog's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

No strong representations of diverse characters or minority identities.

Quick Take: A suspenseful novel told in two timelines, 1791 and 2020, explores the motives behind unsolved apothecary murders yet unfortunately suffers from inconsistent pacing.

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Mature Themes: Yes

• the business of murder
• (im)morality of revenge and vengeance

Possible Triggers: Yes

• Murder
• Allusion to pedophilia
• Description of past miscarriage
• Infidelity
• Self-harm — Caroline’s husband purposefully poisons himself to manipulate Caroline in the hopes of winning her back
• Discussion of suicide

Ending:

HEA for Eliza and Caroline. Nella makes peace with her life and choices before passing for her illness (I imagine because her death wasn’t explicitly on-page).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

Minor: Pedophilia and Suicide