The Scent Keeper: A Novel by Erica Bauermeister Audio Book: 9 hrs., 31 mins
Hardback Book: 320 pages
Well written story of a girl who grew up on an island with her father who taught her to enhance her sensory skill of smell to perceive the world through its scents. The girl, Emmaline grows up to be a diviner of aromas and mastered the skill so well she could tell anyone any scent she was exposed to and could explain any perfume of any kind from any source so well it was as if the scents were talking to her and letting her know its secrets. Her father created scent papers that he kept in bottles that could be experienced to its utmost when released from its captivity. There are mysteries as to why Emmaline and her father are on the island, and the mother she hadn't realized was missing plays in her dreams until one day, older and in a new place and time in her life the things she thought she knew are challenged. A good book with a haunting quality and a magic to it that will speak to the reader and bring reflection on all the scents in our own lives that are attached to sensory memories like a bookmark for every thing in our lives I would recommend this book to Middle Schoolers on up, a story with a dreamy quality wrapping itself like a memory around you. Good book.
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