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The Lost Bookshop
by Evie Woods
DID NOT FINISH
I did not finish this book.
The story is told via three protagonists. Opaline, a woman born in the 1920s who loves literature and is fighting against a system that oppresses women. In the ‘current’ timeline, there is Martha, a woman who is trying to make a new life for herself after surviving domestic violence. Also in the current timeline is Henry, a young man in search of a lost manuscript in a lost bookshop.
I was listening to it as an audiobook and got about halfway. It’s boring. The three characters all sound the same. They have identical sounding values and characters. Martha and Henry are supposed to be in a current time but they don’t act like it. The writing is not amazing. The book seems to genre swap into a romance without any warning in a way that feels jarring. There is no chemistry between Martha and Henry. They also keep running into each a ridiculous number of times despite living in a big city and having nothing in common.
I picked this book for the magical realism aspect, but unfortunately there is little mention of it at the halfway point…
This book was not for me unfortunately.
The story is told via three protagonists. Opaline, a woman born in the 1920s who loves literature and is fighting against a system that oppresses women. In the ‘current’ timeline, there is Martha, a woman who is trying to make a new life for herself after surviving domestic violence. Also in the current timeline is Henry, a young man in search of a lost manuscript in a lost bookshop.
I was listening to it as an audiobook and got about halfway. It’s boring. The three characters all sound the same. They have identical sounding values and characters. Martha and Henry are supposed to be in a current time but they don’t act like it. The writing is not amazing. The book seems to genre swap into a romance without any warning in a way that feels jarring. There is no chemistry between Martha and Henry. They also keep running into each a ridiculous number of times despite living in a big city and having nothing in common.
I picked this book for the magical realism aspect, but unfortunately there is little mention of it at the halfway point…
This book was not for me unfortunately.