Thought-provoking themes include father/daughter relationships, loyalty, trust, sacrifice, secrets, and coming of age. Recommended. All photographs & writing are my original work ~ please DO NOT reprint without first obtaining my permission. 'The Scent Keeper' is definitely a book that would fit neatly into that scenario.

Emmeline has lived with her father on an otherwise uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest for as long as she can remember. Fairy tales often are.Over time, I’d learned that lies have a scent, too. Love, which smelled like nothing so much as fresh bread.The kids threw the rumors out like lit matches, to see what would catch.Words were like scents that way; they changed the very air you breathed.I’d wanted to be only myself, not what had happened before.It felt as if my whole life had been shaped by things people wouldn’t say.Maybe the story was better without the real details. My life is pretty average, but it’s the little things that count, right? It's a dream of mine to sit down and read, uninterrupted, all afternoon & evening with the exception of maybe having someone "at the ready" to refill my drink & keep the atmosphere comfortable.

The best seduction is the one you never see coming.Nobody respects you if all you care about is what they think.All those stories, all those lives, each one an entire world to the person living it, and yet I knew none of them. It's a dream of mine to sit down and read, uninterrupted, all afternoon & evening with the exception of maybe having someone "at the ready" to refill my drink & keep the atmosphere comfortable. There is a lot more to the story but it centers around a young woman Emmeline and her unique olfactory gift. Disrupted from her fairytale childhood, she searches for the secrets of her past, trusting the scents that never lie about the memories they hold, and discovers the realities of a world beyond what she’s known.Starting this search for truth from an enchanted childhood, I, along with Emmeline, was trying to discern what was fantasy and what was reality, as I wasn’t sure what kind of world this story was set in–was it fantasy or realistic fiction or magical realism? The story really started to come together about a quarter of the way into it.

It tells Emmeline’s coming-of-age in three stages. Truth, I’ve found, is much the same.We’ll all choose a good story over the truth any day. I was reminded of Disney’s Emmeline’s reality kept changing, so I don’t want to say too much else and instead encourage you to let go of your expectations so that you can discover her world with her as I did; the lyrical writing and unique sensory/olfactory experience was so immersive.The only qualm I had was that I felt the ending was too open and I still had some questions I wanted answered, but perhaps it’s more realistic to not have all the answers in life anyway.Grief makes a tunnel of our lives, and it is all too easy to lose sight of the other people in the darkness with us–to wish they weren’t there, so their loss would stop rubbing up against ours.Smells don’t care what the mind or heart wants, however. I can assure you that The Scent Keeper ticks all the boxes for a wonderful and memorable reading experience for me. I really liked this novel and I think it is definitely worth reading although I have to admit that I was a little lost in the beginning. However, as she grows, so does her curiosity. I’m Audrey, graduated from Bryn Mawr College (’18) with a Computer Science and Linguistics double major. Maybe that’s how it always is, I thought–we all just go along, catching glimpses of one another, thinking we know everything.You know, I think one of the most fascinating things about perfumes is how they change with each person’s skin chemistry.
The body is their accomplice.
The Scent Keeper follows Emmeline as she grows up on a remote island with only her father and their mysterious scent-papers to keep her company. They always smell a little too sweet, like they need an extra boost of olfactory persuasion.But the city was like nothing I’d imagined. 'The Scent Keeper' is definitely a book that would fit neatly into that scenario. (Every time someone asked me about my current read, I felt like my description of this book was changing haha.) ** spoiler alert ** The writing in this book is utterly lyrical. This is a story of love, grace, and acceptance, and it starts with a daughter and her father, who live alone on a remote island and spend their days foraging for food and… for scents. We can live without food for weeks, and water for days, but try not to breathe and the lungs mutiny.Sadness, like the dark purple juice of a blackberry. All these themes make for great book club discussion! Fear, like the metallic taste of an oncoming storm. The end gave a hint to there being more about her, but just a hint.I didn’t like that Emmeline moved to the city for a boy, and didn’t get the sense that she found her independence from him.

Thank you!Samples of past & present Containers I've created for my gardena small sampling of my published projects spanning a decade of freelancing** spoiler alert ** The writing in this book is utterly lyrical. Her childhood is filled with fairy tales and the type of fantastical fun that only opening up your senses can get you. The Scent Keeper is about a family of perfume or scent makers. To be published by St. Martin’s Press on 21 May 2019This is a story of love, grace, and acceptance, and it starts with a daughter and her father, who live alone on a remote island and spend their days foraging for food and… for scents.

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