Title: The Secret Heart of a
Note
Author: Stacey Lee
Publisher: Katherine Tegen;
HarperCollins
Publication Date: December
2016
Genre: Cute Contemporary
Rate: 4.5/5
Synopsis:
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.
I received an advanced review
copy (arc) of this book from HarperCollins International. So much thanks for
giving me the chance to read it before it can be released to the public. As I
always love and cherish their books to the deepest parts of my heart.
Did
you know that heartbreak smells like Blue Berries and love smells something
sweet and cold (but I won’t yet tell what it is) you’ll know it when you read
it.
I
never really thought the sense of smell and plants could be very, very
interesting. That is just what Miss Stacey Lee did with her book. She put in
the sense of smell as the top sense of a person (to be specific; an aromateur)
and made the scents of plants as an indication of someone’s feelings and
personality. I’ve read books in which the MCs (main characters) can see colors
or auras of people and associated them with how they feel, but I’ve never
really encountered a book like this one on the sense of smell except a bit on
werewolves and some characters that could turn into some animal form. I adored
this book because it was extraordinary and because I’m partial to reading very
original concepts.
So Mim here is like the girl in
which the future generations are dependent to and their spider
web-thread-aromateur linage. She’s her mother’s apprentice while having high
school. She could smell your unique scent or notes (as called in this book).
Their nose is like a thousand times more powerful than the ordinary noses.
She’s fighting for the life she wants and what her mother and basically the
whole universe is expecting her to live. It’s either fall in love or lose your
power in her case her extraordinary sense of smell). I’ll leave it there for
you guys to figure out. I wouldn’t want to spoil anything.
This book has the perfect blend of
fluffiness, lightness, romance and so much interesting facts about plants. This
is another book you could read in one sitting if you’re industrious enough or
no other stuff to do. It is also one of the most adorable books I’ve ever read
in the history of YA. And right now I just so badly want to know what my scent
is and what my heart notes are. Let me guess I probably smell like despair,
broken dreams, and hopes and it could be like antiseptic or some banana or
coconut lol. Anyway read this book when it comes out (on December!) You’ll love
it as much as I did. I just know.
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