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I really enjoyed escaping to the Yucatán Peninsula during a stressful week with this fun & adventurous story about plants. Although I had a few issues with the story, I would still recommend it to plant lovers. It convinced me that an orchid is easy to take care of so I bought this one. Wish me luck!
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This is my #BookSpin book for August & a spot for #BookSpinBingo w/ @TheAromaofBooks !
It‘s also my 1st #AwesomeAugust goal w/ @Andrew65 !

📚 I can‘t pass up a readathon with @Andrew65 !
🌸 My goal is to finish my current read (tagged). I have less than 100 pages to go & it‘s so good!
🧜🏽‍♀️ I would also love to read half of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock. I‘m reading it for book club which is 2 weeks from today!
This month is super busy because school just started, so I appreciate the push.
Wishing you an #AwesomeAugust !

I throughly enjoyed this quirky contemporary fairy tale. Lila faces challenges, tasks to complete, temptation, mistakes, and adventures on her quest. Great story if you can roll with its oddities: Lila is not particularly likable, the dialogue and story arcs can be a bit cheesily new age-ish, and the author plays fast and loose with (possibly stereotypical?) concepts of Mexican spiritual realism.

Obviously I'm a plant person. This book was in the free library at local coffee shop, I excitedly took it home. Weird but I was intrigued by plant lore. Then let's just say if you are animal lover you will be appalled. Skimmed last few Chapters. Unlikeable main character got even more unlikable, crazy people crazier, and then there's a even weirder ending. If it wasn't for the plant portion of the book it would have been a total waste of time.

I really enjoyed this book. The language of flowers was beautiful and the author turned flowers into embodiment of human desire. I listened as an audiobook and hearing the words made it even lovelier.