A review by lucy__
The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

4.0

3.5 ⭐ I really enjoyed the setting, it's really quite bleak but the author makes it so immersive. I've also never read a book about alchemy before, so that was a refreshing change. Although it's well written, I didn't find myself that gripped by the book as a whole and I think it's because it seems like a young YA book (despite some rather dark moments). The characters are all childish and the overall plot could have been taken from a children's story too.

Also this is probably just me, but I found myself really distracted when she managed to instantaneously pull three matching stones out of a bag of mixed stones!