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A review by maggiebook
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
1.0
Think I am in the minority on this one. I loved the story when the focus was on the bookshop and the way the bookseller helped people with books. His bookshop and his neighbors were very interesting and if the author had stayed with that I would have given this 4 stars.
Where it went wrong for me is went the book focused on the bookseller's past romance. I found the women he was in love very selfish and unlikable. She was supposed to be a free-spirit but she came across as a thrill seeker who used people who loved her. The bookseller claimed to have been so in love with her that he closed off anything that reminded him about her when she left him. Now the unbelievable thing is that when she left, she left him a letter which he never read! What! He finally reads it 20 years later because??
At one point in the book using journal type entries the woman tells parts of the love story. She explains how the bookseller wasn't dancing with feeling so she slapped him twice to make him angry so he would dance passionately. It seemed the author wanted us to feel like this was romantic. Slapping someone is humiliating and violent. That was the point I said enough and DNF'd it. So sad since I had high hopes for this book.
Where it went wrong for me is went the book focused on the bookseller's past romance. I found the women he was in love very selfish and unlikable. She was supposed to be a free-spirit but she came across as a thrill seeker who used people who loved her. The bookseller claimed to have been so in love with her that he closed off anything that reminded him about her when she left him. Now the unbelievable thing is that when she left, she left him a letter which he never read! What! He finally reads it 20 years later because??
At one point in the book using journal type entries the woman tells parts of the love story. She explains how the bookseller wasn't dancing with feeling so she slapped him twice to make him angry so he would dance passionately. It seemed the author wanted us to feel like this was romantic. Slapping someone is humiliating and violent. That was the point I said enough and DNF'd it. So sad since I had high hopes for this book.