A review by wendy_cathcart
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

3.0

I really expected to like this book after reading the description. In fact, my mother read it first and told me it seemed like a book that I would enjoy... and I did, until I got to the end. It was well-written, if a little slow moving, and it kept me wondering what Kitty would learn from the next dream. However, it all fell apart at the end. To be completely truthful, there were some points in the narrative that fell flat or didn't seem authentic or believable. I probably would not recommend this one.

Spoiler

I had two main problems with the ending.First, I was very disappointed that the Frieda of pretty much the entire book was only nice and a good friend to Kitty because her sub-conscious made her kinder than she was. The other and even bigger problem was that I could not believe that Frieda, as a single woman in the early 60's, went from having no money to even fund moving the bookstore to having capital for six bookstores and an office building in the span of 3 years. No way could that happen.