The Apothecary's Daughter

by Julie Klassen.

Well that was another good book. It was hard to tell where it was going to end up which can be frustrating but it was a good ride. These books are not romances, they are just straight fiction novels set in the Victorian age.

My one complaint would be that while it is overall a type of love story, you never really know what's inside the main character's head as far as who she may be falling in love with. She doesn't really know but she doesn't agonize over it "out loud" so you really don't know what her feelings are. That's the reason you don't really know how it will end up.

Overall a good book though and I really enjoyed it throughout. I finished up last night after watching "Northanger Abby" and "Persuasion" (Jane Austen movies). I will say there was more than one line in Julie Klassen's second book that was pretty much straight from an Austen book. So she was definitely inspired a bit by Austen.