There’s a lot of exploration on trust and how much someone deserves, and some about what forgiveness looks like, and the nature of power. I love that she faces things her mother taught her about relationships, and about men in particular and has to decide for herself if they are true. The evolving relationships, especially between Thea and her parents and Will and Valentin.
I loved all the twisty, turning elements of this story. My thanks to the publisher for gifting me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review This did leave me hungry for more alchemy books. The alchemy elements made me wish I liked this story and characters more since it had a lot of promise and the alchemy was the highlight of the story for me, but the characters just weren't working for me. We also get told about the French Revolution but the story didn't feel grounded in that time period enough, making the world feel more like an afterthought. Thea felt too different during the second half of the book, like she took a step back in character development, especially when it came to her love interest Will. The pacing was also snappy, which kept the story from dragging, but sometimes it felt a little too fast. The idea of the stone causing madness made for high stakes and tension.
A curse that soon puts Thea's own sanity at risk. Everyone wants Thea's knowledge of the stone, and some refuse to believe in the curse of madness. Her madness leads to the stone's destruction and Thea sets out to make the stone herself to cure her mother, but with the revolution in France heating up she must go to England to stay with a father who doesn't know she exists.
They are close to creating the Philosopher's Stone, but Thea's mother locks her out of the lab while she slowly goes mad thanks to the stone. Thea Hope wants to be an alchemist of her own instead of living in her cruel mother's shadow.
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