A review by balletbookworm
The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler

3.0

This gets a star bump because Esme has pluck. She doesn't have a spine, however, and I think it would have been a much better book had she some spine and we could have done some better relationship development with a different character. The passage of time in this book is weird and hard to keep track of.

Also, oddly enough, Esme only sounded English to me - in comparison to the rest of the characters who are on the balance Americans - when she was using specific non-American verbs. Otherwise she just sounded like any old small-town person unused to New York City.

And Mitchell is a weasel. Couldn't he have got run over by a cab or something?

Review at Brazen Reads: http://brazenreads.com/review-the-bookstore-by-deborah-meyler/