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A review by queenoferebor
The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler
2.0
Between 1 and 2 stars.
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I just. What. What did I just read? I mean, did something else happened in this book that I missed? I don't understand. The premise had it all: bookstore, English girl in foreign country doing her PHD, some sort of romance... And in the end the book had nothing. Like, the story, was totally bland and when I got the end and turned the page I literally said "That is it? WHAT A LOAD OF ***"
Maybe I didn't read it as I should have, but the characters felt sketched, incomplete and false. There is no real background of the protagonist, Michelle is a douche but we don't really know why, and Luke is lurking in the shadows and that's all. The only thing that felt alive was the Bookstore that gives name to the book.
Maybe the idea was that the reader felt as lost as the protagonist feels in the story. If that was the purpose, congratulations because it worked. If not, well...
...
I just. What. What did I just read? I mean, did something else happened in this book that I missed? I don't understand. The premise had it all: bookstore, English girl in foreign country doing her PHD, some sort of romance... And in the end the book had nothing. Like, the story, was totally bland and when I got the end and turned the page I literally said "That is it? WHAT A LOAD OF ***"
Maybe I didn't read it as I should have, but the characters felt sketched, incomplete and false. There is no real background of the protagonist, Michelle is a douche but we don't really know why, and Luke is lurking in the shadows and that's all. The only thing that felt alive was the Bookstore that gives name to the book.
Maybe the idea was that the reader felt as lost as the protagonist feels in the story. If that was the purpose, congratulations because it worked. If not, well...