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miriamllcd 's review for:
The Lost Bookshop
by Evie Woods
2.5 stars.
I am so disappointed. The premise is fantastic - magical realism, a lost bookshop in Ireland, a lost work from a Brontë sister. The plot, if done correctly, could have been great. Instead I kept waiting for the writing to improve or the plot to get better and chapter after chapter I furrowed my brow, getting more frustrated.
The writing was simplistic, at times just straight up bad, with half sketched characters and scenes created that were so jarringly out of place to move the plot along that it felt like I was reading the outline of a story. The author kept having good “one liners” that make for good quotes to pull from the book but it actually got to be annoying.
The book dealing was a good aspect, and the knowledge of old books was a glimmer of good writing but everything else really fell flat to me.
I am so disappointed. The premise is fantastic - magical realism, a lost bookshop in Ireland, a lost work from a Brontë sister. The plot, if done correctly, could have been great. Instead I kept waiting for the writing to improve or the plot to get better and chapter after chapter I furrowed my brow, getting more frustrated.
The writing was simplistic, at times just straight up bad, with half sketched characters and scenes created that were so jarringly out of place to move the plot along that it felt like I was reading the outline of a story. The author kept having good “one liners” that make for good quotes to pull from the book but it actually got to be annoying.
The book dealing was a good aspect, and the knowledge of old books was a glimmer of good writing but everything else really fell flat to me.