Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love indie bookstores and wanted to like this book. But the main character is someone I couldn’t like, not even a little. To me, Fawn wasn’t funny or endearingly quirky; she was petty, incompetent, dishonest, unkind and self-absorbed. The jokey parts fell flat. The use of emails to tell the bookseller’s story felt outdated and already done. The plot in which someone is opening a rival bookstore nearby — ditto. Overall, this book was boring when it wasn’t downright irritating. I couldn’t summon any empathy for, or interest in, this pathetic shop-owner. Although the author can write, in this effort she didn’t create an engaging character or tell a story worth reading.