The Apothecary's Daughter

By Julie Klassen

This book has great reviews, and I was SO excited to read it, (I had been on a waiting list for it since before it came out...) but, I was NOT a fan!!! It was SOOOO slow, I am NOT a fan of slow...! It is 400+ pages, but it could have been under 200, there was SO much BLAH BLAH BLAH in it! I liked the idea, and I liked some of the characters, I just feel like it took too long to go anywhere!!! And in the end, really nothing happened!

Would I recommend it? NOPE!

Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father's shop and their small village provides. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, which villagers whisper about but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity comes when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London. Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lilly is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside. Women are forbidden to work as apothecaries, so to save the family legacy, Lilly will have to make it appear as if her father is still making all the diagnoses and decisions. But the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her. As they vie for village prominence, three men also vie for Lilly's heart.