Reviews - The Bookshop of Second Chances

A lighthearted, easy to read book, exactly what I needed after reading so many books from Read Around the World.
But! Women, let’s stop normalizing grown men (and not grown yet) that treats you like shit, want to know who you talk to and when, and that mistreat you because they don’t know how to express their feelings.

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3.0

This book is so cozy! It’s light, fun, and full of joy and love. And it’s exactly the length a romance novel should be. I am sick of romance novels where the characters get together just at the end and then there’s no time to build a solid relationship and work out the problems that prevented them from getting together until the end. The Bookshop of Second Chances is long enough that they get together and are able to actively resolve their issues without being so long that it gets boring (and I don’t feel that’s a spoiler because that is simply the name of the genre).

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4.0

Been selling out of this one at the store lately, and with the world looking the way it does, I get why. This book is pure escapist comfy pleasure. You've seen this movie, and you probably loved this movie.

Have you seen UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN? This book is that movie, except instead of sunny Italy, it's cold and rainy Scotland and a cozy shop for rare books (meaning, if you're like me, that it's better). The author and protagonist never outright say that the two male leads are supposed to look like Colin Firth and Hugh Grant respectively, but you just kinda KNOW that they are. This is PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE plus bookshop. Do you need more?

Edit 2023: Rereading this got me out of a brief reading slump. Still highly recommend!