Jacqui L'Ange

"Nobody belonged here, so everybody did. It made for a discomfort zone, and that suited me just fine. Cape Town is a place you can disappear in. That - and the uniueness of the floral kingdom - was the reason I was still here."

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.… (meer)