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I could not wait for this book to come out on July 9th, ordered it on kindle at 9 o'clock that morning and loved the beginning of it so much that I read it very slowly because I wanted to enjoy each and every line. I have 3 problems with this novel 1. Nina herself. I was never attached to this character because she never read as a real person to me. Nina is a so-called introverted, socially phobic person with major anxiety and panic disorders. YET she is able to work a full time job with no problem, has lots of friends, belongs to a bunch of social groups (trivia, book clubs etc) has a bunch of lovers and shows zero anxiety while being around Tom in her behavior. She is flirty, coy and witty. As a person who really does suffer from these disorders, I was annoyed by this book because it did NOT at all describe what life with these issues is really like. I can't work full time because of my anxiety, I don't have one single friend because my social phobia is so bad and I have had very few relationships because of my social anxiety disorder. Just because a person would rather read books than socialize DOES NOT make them anxiety disordered. Nowhere in this book does Nina behave like a person who really suffers from these disorders. This really bothered me. 2. Abby Waxman is known for her quick witted characters who ALL have the gift of gab, witty banter and cutesy scenes of clever repartee, but I started to notice that just about EVERY single line of dialogue is written this way. Nobody speaks like this in reality. Yet all of these characters are constantly giving witty remarks followed by further witty remarks followed by further witty remarks follow by...and on and on for 300 pages. Halfway through none of it was funny. It was contrived and extremely annoying 3. No plot whatsoever. It was almost like this author is getting paid by the word. So redundant and stuffed with so many unimportant scenes. It's just 300 pages of quick-witted thinking and dialogue and long diatribes that are supposed to be funny and clever, giving pats on the back to dozens of books most of us probably haven't read, so a lot is lost on the reader. There is also no reason at all why this Tom guy loves Nina as much as he does. She is rude, self-obsessed, insensitive, and obnoxious. At the end, when he tells her how he wants to be with her no matter who she is or what she becomes, her answer is "Boy, that was the cheesiest thing I ever heard." What an awful person to make such an awful response to a man who you've given the run around to but have decided now you do want him. I really could not stand Nina. The WORST part of this book is that in the end, Nina happens to find so many people in her life whose only similarity to her is that "hey, we like books too!" Even her dead father mentions in his letter "I like books too!" So happily ever after for Nina who is surrounded by people who "like books too", therefore bursting her self-confidence where she once had none, curing her social anxiety and getting rid of her lifetime of introversion. All because we all like books!! WOW!! Really poorly done. She needs a much better editor and should learn how to develop a plot so we're not reading pointless paragraph after paragraph so the book can make the 80,000 worded novel.