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novelesque_life 's review for:
The Moment of Everything
by Shelly King
3 STARS
(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review).
"Maggie Duprès, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers." (From Amazon)
After reading the premise of this novel I was all ready to like this book before I even started the first page. The Moment of Everything is an easy read and the book references are great and I love the bookstore. Yet, I did not care for Maggie much and found myself reading the novel just to finish it instead of for enjoyment. This is a novel I neither recommend nor dissuade readers because I neither hated nor loved.
(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review).
"Maggie Duprès, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers." (From Amazon)
After reading the premise of this novel I was all ready to like this book before I even started the first page. The Moment of Everything is an easy read and the book references are great and I love the bookstore. Yet, I did not care for Maggie much and found myself reading the novel just to finish it instead of for enjoyment. This is a novel I neither recommend nor dissuade readers because I neither hated nor loved.