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The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

17 reviews

nooks_cranny's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I thought it was going to be a cozy read but it turned out darker than I thought. It was a good book to pass the time, I didn’t really feel any attachment to any character aside from Madame Bowden. I would love to know more about her but that would ruin the fun and mystery. I also didn’t know I would learn tiny snippets about Irish history

especially concerning the German soldiers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Grief, Confinement, Abandonment, War, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Ableism

empheliath's review against another edition

There was SO MUCH violence against women! Domestic violence, women being beaten, imprisoned by hateful family members, kidnapped. I couldn't take it anymore. Book descriptions led me to believe this was a cozy bookshop mystery. If I'd been warned about the violent content I'd never have picked it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Abandonment, and Sexism

md3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Suicide, Death, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Misogyny, Death of parent, Blood, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Gun violence

corriejn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death, Alcoholism, War, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

clothildev's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, War, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Stalking, Gaslighting, Sexism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Blood, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Abandonment

pr727's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

ceredonia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

Minor: Alcoholism and War

rachtmh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book…. This book, honestly trying to review it without spoilers is soo hard! 
I genuinely loved everything about this book. It is clever, wondrous, tragic, hopeful, passionate & just so many things. 
I was on a constant ride of highs and lows, cried, laughed, blushed, gasped and celebrated. 
The multiple POV and time line are done wonderfully and easy to follow. 
The characters are wonderful and full and go through so much, good and bad.
The Lost Bookshop is a must for all lovers of reading and magic, with some wonder literary history featured. 

This book is an instant re-read for me and 100% recommend as many people as possible experience the journey that Evie Woods has so wonderfully put on paper. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexism, Alcoholism, Addiction, Bullying, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Kidnapping

believed child death and forced child loss features for a small part in the book and may be upsetting to some readers

jijirich's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Based on the cover and title (specifically the Amazon Kindle title which called the book "charming and uplifting"), I expected a cozy novel. The mystery aspects were fun, but I wasn't prepared for graphic violence against women. I rated it as highly as I did because I think if my expectations were different, I would have liked it more, but even still the characters felt flat and the plot had several gaping chasms.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Confinement, Abandonment, Child death, Alcoholism, and Murder

trippalli's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

An excellent historic fiction. I appreciate it how they brought light to the women being put in seeing this albums when they spoke up or independent and brought to light the issues with arranged marriages and abusive marriages and how difficult it is to get away from it. Abusive relationship was interesting how they went back and forth between the two time periods and the what lives of those two people being interwoven

I don't think the story had a lot of surprises but it was well written and engaging story. I didn't want to put it down till it was done and I got invested in the people, characters and their goals and outcomes during the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Mental illness, Cancer, Child death, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Abandonment, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, and Forced institutionalization