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A review by katekate_reads_
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
4.0
Some books are more than a story you read - they somehow draw you in and are a fully immersive experience. You are in the world - seeing what’s described, hearing the background noises - and in this case, smelling all the scents described.
At the start of the book, Emmaline and her father are living alone on a remote island - she hasn’t seen another person at all that she can remember. Her father tells her fabulous stories about a Scent hunter and teaches her to follow her nose.
This was a reading experience entirely its own - but also so many books that it made me think of in various ways. It reminded me of The Night Circus and Uprooted in the immersive experience/fairy tale like feel at points. It reminded me of Where the Crawdads Sing and Educated in the experience of growing up isolated from the rest of the world. I highly recommend lighting a favorite candle and settling in with this book.
Thank you very much to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance reading copy in exchange for my honest review.
At the start of the book, Emmaline and her father are living alone on a remote island - she hasn’t seen another person at all that she can remember. Her father tells her fabulous stories about a Scent hunter and teaches her to follow her nose.
This was a reading experience entirely its own - but also so many books that it made me think of in various ways. It reminded me of The Night Circus and Uprooted in the immersive experience/fairy tale like feel at points. It reminded me of Where the Crawdads Sing and Educated in the experience of growing up isolated from the rest of the world. I highly recommend lighting a favorite candle and settling in with this book.
Thank you very much to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance reading copy in exchange for my honest review.