The Scent Keeper's Daughter by Erica Bauermeister

How I Found: With this one I was intrigued by the title. Scent is one of the most powerful triggers of memory and an often overlooked sense when using imagery. Bauermeister did not disappoint. In fact she inter-laid memory with imagery in such a way that the settings came alive along with the characters.
Why You Might Read: What starts as a fairy tale peels into a reality we wish we could close and return to childhood with the pull of the scents, but as Emmeline grows she realizes, “We all just go along catching glimpses of each other thinking we know everything,” and we learn with her to forgive our loved ones and ourselves even when the choices we have made permeate our very being.