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Number9Dream

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8. Finished "The Lost Apothecary" by Rachel Penner

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Sun Jun 21, 2026, 01:47 PM

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Thought this would be an interesting historical mystery, but it ended up just being dark and depressing. To make it more confusing, it's told in the first person by three different women. I managed to finish it but just barely. One star.

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