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A review by kaitriona
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
This books was far too long and was so slow to read. Finally when the ending did happen it was wrapped up almost too fast and not a lot was explained.
I hate Henry so much, he is mean to Martha talks down to her. He ran back to London and instead of texting her I’ll be back left her a note that he expected someone to deliver to who, who she didn’t even know. He could have even dropped the note off at the post office. Martha and Henry have literally no chemistry and I was actively rooting against them getting together. One scene where they are laying in bed together he say something along the lines of and my heart grew ten times bigger, like he was what the grinch who stole Christmas? Another thing he said to Martha was that she was SO special and he just didn’t get how she couldn’t see it, and he just didn’t know where he fit in. Like her life revolves around him??? After he had basically ghosted Martha all he did was give her a really expensive pen as an apology. He is so useless. He was not helpful when she was worried about Madam Bowden being missing, it was more an inconvenience to him to help. I hated him. To me he added nothing to the story except snide little comments about Martha. This book gave a master class in how to write an incomplete straight man who brings nothing to the table but thinks the world revolves around him.
The author also used something along the the lines from Batman “I was born in the dark” on Martha’s tattoo which felt very random.
Lyndon who is not her brother but is her father has a Star Wars reveal I AM YOUR FATHER. Another Lyndon note, how did he get money to keep her in an insane asylum if he was poor and needed her to marry a rich man??? Was Armond his informant not the other person, the author was alluding to this at the end when Lyndon used Armonds bet name for her.
Also who is madam Bowden, and she’s just gone forever did they not see another stained glass window next to the Opaline window??? Was she not also a caretaker of the bookshop does she not deserve her own stained glass window??
Moving onto Opaline. I find it so hard to believe that this women who spent YEARS searching for a missing Emily Brontë manuscript AND found it would somehow let her own daughter just exist in the world and wait for her to come find her??? That’s the biggest plot hole. You mean the woman who was so happy to have a baby, who escaped from an insane asylum, found out her daughter who she thought was stillborn IS STILL ALIVE. And she what does nothing, gets cozy at her books store with some Austrian world war fighter pilot???? Also the author just brushing off that the Austrian pilot was fighting for the German side, like ohhhh I didn’t to. Like he didn’t actively pick up a gun and kill people ???? It’s giving they weren’t all bad people and feels like a re-write of history.
To sum up this book Martha experienced domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, runs away, a spirit or ghost kills her husband, she finds a lost room and gets with a mid guy.
I hate Henry so much, he is mean to Martha talks down to her. He ran back to London and instead of texting her I’ll be back left her a note that he expected someone to deliver to who, who she didn’t even know. He could have even dropped the note off at the post office. Martha and Henry have literally no chemistry and I was actively rooting against them getting together. One scene where they are laying in bed together he say something along the lines of and my heart grew ten times bigger, like he was what the grinch who stole Christmas? Another thing he said to Martha was that she was SO special and he just didn’t get how she couldn’t see it, and he just didn’t know where he fit in. Like her life revolves around him??? After he had basically ghosted Martha all he did was give her a really expensive pen as an apology. He is so useless. He was not helpful when she was worried about Madam Bowden being missing, it was more an inconvenience to him to help. I hated him. To me he added nothing to the story except snide little comments about Martha. This book gave a master class in how to write an incomplete straight man who brings nothing to the table but thinks the world revolves around him.
The author also used something along the the lines from Batman “I was born in the dark” on Martha’s tattoo which felt very random.
Lyndon who is not her brother but is her father has a Star Wars reveal I AM YOUR FATHER. Another Lyndon note, how did he get money to keep her in an insane asylum if he was poor and needed her to marry a rich man??? Was Armond his informant not the other person, the author was alluding to this at the end when Lyndon used Armonds bet name for her.
Also who is madam Bowden, and she’s just gone forever did they not see another stained glass window next to the Opaline window??? Was she not also a caretaker of the bookshop does she not deserve her own stained glass window??
Moving onto Opaline. I find it so hard to believe that this women who spent YEARS searching for a missing Emily Brontë manuscript AND found it would somehow let her own daughter just exist in the world and wait for her to come find her??? That’s the biggest plot hole. You mean the woman who was so happy to have a baby, who escaped from an insane asylum, found out her daughter who she thought was stillborn IS STILL ALIVE. And she what does nothing, gets cozy at her books store with some Austrian world war fighter pilot???? Also the author just brushing off that the Austrian pilot was fighting for the German side, like ohhhh I didn’t to. Like he didn’t actively pick up a gun and kill people ???? It’s giving they weren’t all bad people and feels like a re-write of history.
To sum up this book Martha experienced domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, runs away, a spirit or ghost kills her husband, she finds a lost room and gets with a mid guy.