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A review by taisie22
The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill by Annie Darling
fast-paced
3.0
I really enjoyed Ms. Darling's earlier books and was looking forward to this one, but this one was more of a disappointment. Sophy is determined to emigrate to Australia but must first earn money for passage, so she takes a job in her eccentric father's vintage dress shop. The story is about her education in vintage and her desire to move vs. her attraction to Charles, who furnishes vintage jewelry to the shop.
I was tilted because I got the edition that split the book into four sections distributed over the next month instead of the entire book at once. It felt like a bait and switch, but I got over that because maybe I should have checked the sales site better. I bring it up because I do feel that putting this book out as a serial impacted the pacing.
Sophy was a bit too whiny for me. In fact, most of the characters felt like they were trying too hard instead of acting like real people. I did like the ending, which had a good twist. This definitely wasn't as good as the Lonely Heart Bookshop series, but it was okay.
I was tilted because I got the edition that split the book into four sections distributed over the next month instead of the entire book at once. It felt like a bait and switch, but I got over that because maybe I should have checked the sales site better. I bring it up because I do feel that putting this book out as a serial impacted the pacing.
Sophy was a bit too whiny for me. In fact, most of the characters felt like they were trying too hard instead of acting like real people. I did like the ending, which had a good twist. This definitely wasn't as good as the Lonely Heart Bookshop series, but it was okay.