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When botanist Maddy Bellani is asked to travel to Brazil to collect rare seeds from a plant that could cure cancer, she reluctantly agrees. Securing the seeds would be a coup for the seed bank in Cape Town where she works, but Brazil is the country of her birth and home to her estranged father. Her mission is challenging, despite the help of alluring local plant expert Zé. The plant specimen is elusive, its seeds guarded by a sect wary of outsiders. Maddy must also find her way in a world influenced by unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies and the selfish motives of others. Entrancing and richly imagined, The Seed Thief is a modern love story with an ancient history, a tale that moves from flora of Table Mountain to the heart of Afro-Brazilian spiritualism. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Shortly after a break up, Maddy is sent to Brazil to try to track down some seeds of an extinct African subspecies of tree. Even though she's not quite sure she actually wants to go. Why? Because this plant might hold a cure to cancer. And she's not the only one after it. In between her hunt, her dad wants to make contact and she has a romance.
I loved the writing style of this book. It was beautiful and descriptive and emotional without being over the top. I can see why not everyone would love this book. Personally, I was very much there for all the botany stuff. I loved all the facts woven in with the fiction (like the seeds discovered in a blood bank. Yup. This is a thing that happened in real life). I do understand why all the plants and plant-based descriptions (a lot of stuff about the smell of fynbos - something you won't understand unless you've been in the world's smallest floral kingdom) but I loved it so much. I wasn't as much of a fan of the romance plot though. And some of the in between stuff felt a little unecessary. But overall? I loved it. Although I think that the end could be a little more. ( )