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Amethysts & Alchemy

By: Rachel Rener
Narrated by: Lia Langola
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I used to eat rocks as a child.

The family doctor diagnosed me with pica, dooming me to years of intensive therapy and extensive dentistry work. It wouldn’t be until much later that I would understand the all-consuming, insatiable craving that spurred me to eat a variety of rocks and minerals wasn’t a mental disorder, but an innate gift that allows me to extract the magic contained inside them: tourmaline for speed, celestite for strength, augite for a powerful laxative effect (that I had to discover the hard way).

Twenty years later, I’ve hidden my abilities beneath a white lab coat, working as a small-town pharmacist who creates proprietary “naturopathic” tonics that treat everything from memory loss to erectile dysfunction. Those tonics, in turn, fund my expensive lifestyle of solo flying around the world to search for more rocks. What more could an airplane-loving, mineral-munching, magical alchemist want?

Unfortunately, my arch nemesis, Heath Spencer, has recently taken it upon himself to single-handedly ruin my life. No longer content with annoying me from afar with his overpriced, tacky rock shop, Heath has decided to further antagonize me by dangling the opportunity of a lifetime right in front of my face: traveling to an ancient copper mine in China, which is home to some of the rarest and most stunning minerals on Earth.

It’s not until after I’m trapped halfway across the world with my least favorite person on the planet that I’m forced to come face-to-face with three terrible realizations: everything I thought I knew about Heath Spencer is wrong, some minerals were never meant to be ingested, and – worst of all – I’m not the only one who’s been keeping secrets...

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Fantastic! More, please.

This is a fantastic story! Action, sizzle, international drama....and a pig!

I was immediately hooked on this story by our FMC's intense anecdotal opening, as intended (😉) and remained captivated by the slow revelation that was Delaney Stone.

It's a fantastic new world that I hope turns into a long series because I really want to spend more time with Delaney, Heath and Topie. I loved travelling with them through this beginning stage of their rivals-to-lovers journey and the open ended final chapter, with it's hints of possible future storylines, was more than enough to make sure I follow this author for news of future releases.

I appreciated the neurodiverse representation and use of first person POV to let readers understand Delaney's motives and thinking, when to an outsider she could appear abrasive. She was so insightfully written that this feels like a master class in ASD for the neurotypical - Delaney's sensory issues, obsessions, literal interpretation of phrases etc are explained or made more relatable, when otherwise they would make no sense.

The narrator used a mostly monotonal voice to further enhance the realism of neurodiverse depiction but strong emotions did receive altered pitch and volume. This just boosted believability for me and as the narrator has a pleasant voice she was enjoyable to listen to.

I definitely recommend this book, for so many reasons, and clearly need to push my other Rachel Rener stories to the top of my tbr.

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