A review by sarahrahrah
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.

I really tried to get through this book, but found it too be too boring and a little too ridiculously easy for the MC to get past every hardship. I liked the concept, and loved all the interwoven book references, and also found much of the Scottish highland descriptions to be really well-written. But the plot was so boring, it felt like Nina just kept stumbling upward into success, and I couldn't get past how STUPID and unbelievable it was that the train was able to stop in time to not obliterate her and her stalled car on the tracks. I also did not care at all about the intrigue of the train conductor love interest or even maybe the farmer landlord? which I think was really the only thing left to read about now that she had gotten her little van bookshop up and running. OH, and my god what a STUPID name she picked for her new business - the little shop of happily ever after. Maybe I'm just too critical and jaded, but *gag* it's just too much