Saturday, April 27, 2019

Secret of A Heart Note

Did I ever mention the independent study that I created back in grad school while I was finishing my thesis? It was focused on a narrow (but expending) genre: ya romance + magical realism.

Stacey Lee's "Secret of A Heart Note" was at the top of my To Read list and therefore, at the top of my self-made syllabus.


["An evocative novel about a teen aroma expert who uses her extrasensitive sense of smell to mix perfumes that help others fall in love while protecting her own heart at all costs

Sometimes love is right under your nose. As one of only two aromateurs left on the planet, sixteen-year-old Mimosa knows what her future holds: a lifetime of weeding, mixing love elixirs, and matchmaking—all while remaining incurably alone. For Mim, the rules are clear: falling in love would render her nose useless, taking away her one great talent. Still, Mimosa doesn’t want to spend her life elbow-deep in soil and begonias. She dreams of a normal high school experience with friends, sports practices, debate club, and even a boyfriend. But when she accidentally gives an elixir to the wrong woman and has to rely on the lovesick woman’s son, the school soccer star, to help fix the situation, Mim quickly begins to realize that falling in love isn’t always a choice you can make."]

This was SOOOOO SOO SO good. Read it. Please. Read it. Fall in love, like Mim. 

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