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Loading... A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (A Saffron Everleigh Mystery) (original 2023; edition 2022)by Kate Khavari (Author), Jodie Harris (Narrator)
Work InformationA Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari (2023)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. So much fun. I loved Saffron and Alexander, and I really appreciated the focus on the challenges of being a woman in science, which are sadly still applicable today. Parts of this book reminded me of reading Lessons in Chemistry, but this is much lighter. This is an adventurous and playful book with some dark themes, and I loved every minute of it.DNF @ 8% I originally requested this eARC from Netgalley because someone said it was AMAZING and was raving about how great it was. I didn't realize it was a historical fiction/cozy mystery, both of which are genres I don't particularly enjoy. My only real comments are the word "botany" is used far too much in the first chapter, and the first chapter is too long, it should have been split into 2 chapters. The second chapter is a bit long also. If I hadn't read the synopsis I would never have known that the book is supposed to be set in 1920, I would have just assumed it was a hoity-toity dinner party in London. This one just isn't for me. no reviews | add a review
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The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure. Debut author Kate Khavari deftly entwines a pulse-pounding mystery with the struggles of a woman in a male-dominated field in 1923 London. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues' beliefs about women's academic inabilities and not-so-subtle hints that her deceased father's reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn't expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors' wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin. Dr. Maxwell, Saffron's mentor, is the main suspect and evidence quickly mounts. Joined by fellow researcher--and potential romantic interest--Alexander Ashton, Saffron uses her knowledge of botany as she explores steamy greenhouses, dark gardens, and deadly poisons to clear Maxwell's name. Will she be able to uncover the truth, or will her investigation land her on the murderer's list, in this entertaining examination of society's expectations? No library descriptions found. |
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Saffron Everleigh is a woman in a male-dominated field. This is set in 1923 London and the reminders of how different womens' lives are in the modern world are many--we do tend to see more women in academia and sciences now than there apparently were back then.
It was interesting seeing poisons (plant based) through the eyes of a botanist--learning how some worked etc. ( )