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The Apothecary's Daughter
The Apothecary's Daughter: Ray Flowers #1 | Jane A. Adams
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One February afternoon, Detective Ray Flowers’ life is blown apart by a petrol bomb attack. No one can tell him who did it. Or why. Anchorless and alone, he moves to his aunt’s country cottage. What he needs is perspective.
Instead, he is tormented by visions of Kitty Hallam, a troubled young woman accused of witchcraft. Back in 1643. Is she a figment of Flowers’ imagination or something more?
Whatever the truth, Flowers can’t help but be drawn into Kitty’s world, sensing their stories are intertwined somehow.
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Det Ray Flowers is currently on sick leave recovering from a petrol bomb attack where he was badly burned. They were never able to catch who did it or find out why. Ray moves into a cottage left to him by his aunt following her death. The village is quaint & Ray starts to have strange dreams about a young woman named Kitty. Reading his aunt's diaries, Ray finds out that Kitty visited his aunt too & that Kitty lived & died in the 17th century.

OutsmartYourShelf As he starts to look into what happened to Kitty, he meets Sarah, a library archivist whom Ray starts to grow close to but he still feels a close bond to Kitty.

Kitty is living in England in 1643 when the Civil War breaks out. Charles I raises the standard at Nottingham & goes into battle against Parliament. Kitty faces a battle of her own when a new minister & his family move into the village. Kitty was burned in a fire & is used to being looked
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OutsmartYourShelf at strangely, but the minister's wife takes an unhealthy dislike to her, which culminates in Kitty being accused of being a witch. She is taken to the Leicester Assizes where she will most likely be found guilty & sentenced to death.

This book is a odd mix of genres - it couldn't make its mind up if it was a police procedural or a historical fiction with paranormal overtones.
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OutsmartYourShelf Out of the two storylines, I preferred Kitty's, she was a much more interesting character than anyone in the modern story. This odd mix meant that it felt a bit disjointed & Ray's connection to Kitty was very strange. A few sightings of a ghost haunting the cottage & some dreams I can sort of understand but about two thirds of the way through it takes an even stranger turn. Whilst in bed with girlfriend Sarah, she is 'replaced' by Kitty & Ray 2y
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OutsmartYourShelf sleeps with her. Sex with ghosts? Is this Greys Anatomy? Could it technically be considered a threesome?

It's all very 'huh?' & then the ending is a complete damp squib. Very abrupt & it felt as if things had been left unfinished. I have an ARC of a later book in this series for review so I read this one first, & I'm hoping it's not quite as odd as this one. 2⭐

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5608547634
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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2y
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