6/2/2023 0 Comments The apprentices maile meloyBut when Janie is kidnapped, he heads off to to the Pacific island where she's being held, travelling in the form of a bird. Like being kidnapped, and held prisoner by a power-hungry millionaire who wants alchemical help developing new weapons of mass destruction.īenjamin, in the meantime, has been spending his teen years in the jungles of Asia- his idealist father, the Alchemist of book 1, is devoting his life to tending the victims of war. Like Benjamin, the companion of her first magical adventure who she hasn't seen since it ended, finding a way to communicate with her through alchemical telepathy. Like getting expelled from school on a false charge. It's 1954, with the threat of atomic warfare (a bit part of the first book) hanging over the world.but Janie, now 16, is distracted by other things. The Apprentices, by Maile Meloy, begins two years after the end of The Apothecary.
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