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Alchemy of Secrets
by Stephanie Garber
This book was a wild ride! I think it’s up there as one of the fastest paced books I’ve read… it was just one thing after the other with twists and turns and rabbit holes!
At this California University, there’s a class you can take called Folklore 517… only it’s not in the course catalog, you have to find out about it by word of mouth, and you have to literally FIND the class off campus in an old theatre. Each class gets harder and harder to locate as you need to decipher clues to determine where you think they might be held (a different location each time with a new folklore told). Manage to complete the course and a credit will magically show up on your transcript.
Holland, now a TA for the Professor of this course stumbles on a clue one night that leads her to believe the folklores she learned about might actually be true… and it sets things in motion for a chain of events that just spiral.
If you loved The DiVinci Code or the movie National Treasure, I think you’ll love this. It was like a Magical Realism Treasure Hunt. I couldn’t stop trying to guess theories and couldn’t put the book down!
I went back and forth on the rating… initially I gave it 4.5 stars because I didn’t think it ended with enough tied up. After reflecting a bit, I decided since there IS a sequel, it’s best not to ding an author for doing their job and making it so you can’t WAIT for book 2. In sitting down to write this review… I’m realizing just how many things weren’t explained that weren’t monoumental enough to probably even be addressed in book 2… so for that reason I’m back to a 4.5 - it was a fairly short read and I do think we needed some more pages to answer some things while still keeping plenty of excitement for the sequel.
⭐️ 4.5/5
At this California University, there’s a class you can take called Folklore 517… only it’s not in the course catalog, you have to find out about it by word of mouth, and you have to literally FIND the class off campus in an old theatre. Each class gets harder and harder to locate as you need to decipher clues to determine where you think they might be held (a different location each time with a new folklore told). Manage to complete the course and a credit will magically show up on your transcript.
Holland, now a TA for the Professor of this course stumbles on a clue one night that leads her to believe the folklores she learned about might actually be true… and it sets things in motion for a chain of events that just spiral.
If you loved The DiVinci Code or the movie National Treasure, I think you’ll love this. It was like a Magical Realism Treasure Hunt. I couldn’t stop trying to guess theories and couldn’t put the book down!
I went back and forth on the rating… initially I gave it 4.5 stars because I didn’t think it ended with enough tied up. After reflecting a bit, I decided since there IS a sequel, it’s best not to ding an author for doing their job and making it so you can’t WAIT for book 2. In sitting down to write this review… I’m realizing just how many things weren’t explained that weren’t monoumental enough to probably even be addressed in book 2… so for that reason I’m back to a 4.5 - it was a fairly short read and I do think we needed some more pages to answer some things while still keeping plenty of excitement for the sequel.
⭐️ 4.5/5