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laurieb755 's review for:
The Little Paris Bookshop
by Nina George
Parts of this story were utterly delightful, placing me right there with Perdu, Max, Cuneo and Samantha on the Literary Apothecary barge steaming south, along with most of their singular and together adventures from then on.
And parts of this story were drudgery to read – Manon's journal entries, Perdu's remembrances of his time with Manon. I find this most curious, as Manon is the lightening rod around which the rest of the story takes off. But I wonder if some other story could have served just as well, or even better as the catalyst. I found Manon an irritant each time she popped up, getting in the way of the real story, the livelier imagination, the pieces that rendered this tale three stars. She did not help the narrative; perhaps some other conveyance would have buoyed this tale beyond three stars. Alas, she just weighed it down.
And parts of this story were drudgery to read – Manon's journal entries, Perdu's remembrances of his time with Manon. I find this most curious, as Manon is the lightening rod around which the rest of the story takes off. But I wonder if some other story could have served just as well, or even better as the catalyst. I found Manon an irritant each time she popped up, getting in the way of the real story, the livelier imagination, the pieces that rendered this tale three stars. She did not help the narrative; perhaps some other conveyance would have buoyed this tale beyond three stars. Alas, she just weighed it down.