The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
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57 Gresham Street is the most incendiary building in London.
Upstairs, unconventional chemist Emmeline Starling uses combustion to solve scientific mysteries. Downstairs, buttoned-up children’s book printer Robert Vane tries very hard not to panic when the ceiling catches on fire. And when these two opposing forces are contained within one small building? Explosions are just the beginning.
After two years of putting up with Robert Vane’s scowls, his precious rules, and the infuriating cleft in his chin, Emmeline has seized upon a solution to the problem of sharing 57 Gresham: she’s purchased the entire building. Her attempt to remove Vane is thwarted, however, when Em and Robert uncover the theft of one of Em’s most dangerous compounds.
Soon Em and Robert are on the run together, chasing a ring of industrial spies who mean to use her discovery as a weapon. From a ship to an island to a foundry in Wiltshire, Em and Robert keep finding themselves trapped together—and close proximity transforms their sparks into a conflagration. For two passionate people who’ve always been at odds, explosive chemicals are nothing compared to the biggest risk of all: falling disastrously, catastrophically in love.
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The chemistry of familiar objects it's an adorable regency novella, with an unconventional heroine and her extreme opposite hero. I really liked the writing style and felt the relationship was quite well developed for such a short book
Robert is everything I adore in heroes: protective and utterly smitten by the heroine, caring and willing to learn and adjust.
“You are the first thing I think of when I wake. For years now. First—you. And then everything else. You are my dawn.”
Did I mention he writes children's books? Robert must be protected at all costs!
If you need something light, short and easy, with a beautiful love story and palpable attraction between the characters, this is it!
P.S: Robert mentions something in the book that I feel it Kees being too real:
“I suppose I thought that if someone bought a book of moral lessons for a child without even investigating what it contained, then that child deserved . . . something special on the inside. Something magical.”
I read a lot of child stories, and I have been feeling that most of them are full of moral lessons. I understand the importance of those, but I wish I would see more books full with something magical. Can we turn Robert into a real person please?
