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A review by owls_rainbow
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I wouldn't say that this is my normal sort of vibe at all but it caught my eye sometime and I thought it looked cute. I promptly forgot about it until a few days ago when I came down with a horrible cold and felt too foggy for anything on my TBR list and I was scanning my shelves and spotted this and thought Christmas? That'll do.
Carmen has just been made redundant after the shop she works in closes and there's nothing left in her town. Then her fancy lawyer sister, Sofia, in Edinburgh comes up with a solution. One of her clients owns a failing bookshop and Sofia begrudgingly admits that Carmen was good at her job, maybe she can help him turn things around.
Carmen and Sofia have never seen eye to eye and things are... Tense. Not helped by health-obsessed nanny Skylar - seriously sweets and TV and modern toys are good in moderation. Throw in a self-obsessed self-help book author and a professor of trees and things get complicated.
For a while I thought Carmen was going to make the wrong choice but everything worked out in the end. I wish the ending itself has been more fleshed out though. It seemed very abrupt and I wanted more of a coming together scene between the sisters.
Carmen has just been made redundant after the shop she works in closes and there's nothing left in her town. Then her fancy lawyer sister, Sofia, in Edinburgh comes up with a solution. One of her clients owns a failing bookshop and Sofia begrudgingly admits that Carmen was good at her job, maybe she can help him turn things around.
Carmen and Sofia have never seen eye to eye and things are... Tense. Not helped by health-obsessed nanny Skylar - seriously sweets and TV and modern toys are good in moderation. Throw in a self-obsessed self-help book author and a professor of trees and things get complicated.
For a while I thought Carmen was going to make the wrong choice but everything worked out in the end. I wish the ending itself has been more fleshed out though. It seemed very abrupt and I wanted more of a coming together scene between the sisters.