{"id":3292,"date":"2014-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:11:53","slug":"m-is-maile-meloys-the-apprentices-book-review-chasing-mystery-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"M is Maile Meloy’s The Apprentices (book review) – chasing mystery around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>This potion makes you a bird<\/a>,
\nthis one lets you enter another’s mind,
\nthe apothecary of peace creates many powerful mixtures,
\nand evil persons want them all…<\/p>\n

As the Cold War<\/a> heats up, our friends Janie, Benjamin, and Pip must\u00a0 travel the world to find one another and prevent the ancient secrets of the Apothecaries from becoming weapons!<\/p>\n

Please do read the first book in the series, The Apothecary<\/em> (my review here<\/a>), before savoring The Apprentices<\/em> in your choice of formats, including its June 2014 paperback edition.<\/p>\n

Can peace prevail over the desire for power?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Apprentices (Apothecary, book 2) \/ Maile Meloy; illustrations by Ian Schoenherr. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: As Janie’s water desalination chemistry project succeeds in 1954, the teen knows that only her friend Benjamin can help her keep its true secrets from falling into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n

Although halfway around the world, the friends can finally talk after 2 years of coded letters because Benjamin and his apothecary father have discovered an amazing instant communication method.<\/p>\n

Janie realizes that the attack on her chemistry equipment and her expulsion from school were caused by her roommate’s greedy father who owns an island in Malaya.<\/p>\n

Being kidnapped, flying in bird form between Pacific islands, eluding a cargo cult – Benjamin and Janie must prevail over terrible odds to prevent disaster in this exciting sequel to The Apothecary<\/em>.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This potion makes you a bird, this one lets you enter another’s mind, the apothecary of peace creates many powerful mixtures, and evil persons want them all… As the Cold War heats up, our friends Janie, Benjamin, and Pip must\u00a0 travel the world to find one another and prevent the ancient secrets of the Apothecaries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30,51,41],"tags":[10,90,22,7,11,20,5,70,37,16,32,18,40,44,43,39,49,31,15,66,35,33,190,3,6,28],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2013","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}