Shelf Quest

A Perilous Undertaking is a fantastic follow-up to the first Veronica Speedwell book, A Curious Beginning. I got the first during an Audible sale in the fall (my review here)- I was amazed at how good it is and surprised that it hadn’t come up in a recommendation for me somewhere online. This series features Veronica, a spinster lepidopterist in her mid-twenties, and Stoker, the black sheep in a noble family. Literally. In this book they are approached by a…

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This book follows Lara, the owner of Blossom & Grow, a small flower shop in Dublin. We start out with Lara’s story and come back to it many times throughout the book, but sprinkled throughout the rest of it we get a glimpse at the stories of other people entwined in Lara’s life. Her brother, husband, people from her past and her future, and little backgrounds of people who are regulars in her shop. This book very much feels like…

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