

The Apprentices
Author: Maile Meloy
Series: The Apothecary Series #2
Narrator: Cristin Milioti
Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 06/04/2013
Author: Maile Meloy
Series: The Apothecary Series #2
Narrator: Cristin Milioti
Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 06/04/2013
Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter; the short story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the "10 Best Books of 2009" by the New York Times Book Review); and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.Cristin Milioti’s film and television credits include The Wolf of Wall Street, A to Z, and How I Met Your Mother. She originated the role of Girl in the Broadway hit musical Once, for which she won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Tony. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
On June 4th, 2013, the release date of this book, The Apprentices, my alarm clock woke me up at 9:00 AM, I got onto the library's website to see if they had the book, AND LOW AND BEHOLD! The Apprentices was there! So I put on some clothes really quick and drove there to spirit the book away and devo......more
Normally I would give a summary of the book first, but I really had no idea what was going on. There were at least 3 perspectives, which made the book somewhat confusing, and the change of setting along with the characters made the book altogether very confusing. After reading The Apothecary, I had......more
Reading this as an adult, there are a lot of really cringe YA tropes in this. Both Janie and Benjamin do some things that are really stupid and knowingly harmful. There's a blatant disregard for a lot of things, and they basically throw caution to the wind for somewhat frivolous pursuits. Because of......more
This second installment was a hot mess. I don't care to take the time to review it all. The motivations were silly, the exact-right-time coincidences were too plentiful, and anything having to do with Jin Lo was nonsensical and irrelevant. Can't decide if I'm going to finish out the series or not.......more
This book had so much potential after the masterpiece that is The Apothecary #1. But it just fell so short of my expectations. I feel that this book may have even ruined the first one for me a little, and I don't think I'm going to read the third instalment of the series. The ONLY thing I enjoyed ab......more
"features the same fun, fast-moving formula as the first book, with charming characters and exciting intrigue mixed with a handful of magic . . . Schoenherr’s moody illustrations (not all seen by PW) add to the atmosphere of this magical (in multiple senses) story.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
“This . . . well-constructed adventure accurately conveys the geopolitical instability of the era and is leavened with just enough magic, chaste romance and humor to appeal to middle-grade readers through teens." — Kirkus Reviews
“Meloy boldly weaves the disparate strings of the story together in inventive—sometimes breathtaking—ways. More nuanced than the first book, this brings together a large and intriguing cast and explores their knotty relationships . . . the characters become more memorable as the pages fly by." — Booklist