Reviews - Battle of the Bookstores

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Battle of the Bookstores

Ali Brady

4.04 AVERAGE

peskridge3's review against another edition

4.5

funny lighthearted fast-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

6’7” romance bookstore owner? Aka my dream man?

brittymack's review against another edition

4.25

This book was no masterpiece. The pacing was strange (a bit rushed in the end, slower in the beginning), nothing about it was really all that creative, and I didn’t love the FMC, but I still had such a fun time with it. 🤣 good vibes for me all the way through.

The story is an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers story about two rival bookstore managers: she the “is love real” cynic who loves and specializes in hard-hitting literary fiction, and he the HEA-loving romance specialist wanting everyone to find their perfect love story. The MMC was THEE perfect romance hero — excellent listener, wants to understand her, tall and hot and cut but also with a few flaws to keep him humble (like dislexia).

There’s a bit of “hidden penpal identity” which I loved too, although I frankly could have used more tension there 🤣

she was thrilled immediately upon discovering his identity, and completely understood his secrecy because she’d asked it of him. Which, ok, but it was a bit jarring

. The third act breakup wasn’t really about their relationship but about their jobs, which was just ehhh but by the time i got there i was invested 😆.

bmanatee_reads's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

buffalogal17's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional inspiring relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

valerie_ferguson's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

ashvvee's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

erika_iguess's review against another edition

3.5

lighthearted medium-paced

The first half... yeah, that was rough to go through. I do understand other reviews about Josie just being plain mean 😭 like, girl... chill.
This book is definitely CHEESY, with a very, seemingly unbelievable male love interest lol but we take it. For my 100th book of the year, it was decent!