How did I not love a book about bookstores? In many ways it was a 3* book for me: the plot was interesting and the scavenger-hunt aspect was fun. But I found halfway-through that I was really *not* liking the narrator and the whole plot with her boyfriend. Why was that even there?! That part of the plot gave me the ick, though I was also like… am I supposed to not like her? Is that whole plot supposed to mirror Billy’s supposed self-absorbedness? 

I think this is also one of the first books where the found-family was not the ending I actually hoped for or wanted.🤷🏼‍♀️

Other books with the save-the-unprofitable-bookstore plot that were much better: “Christmas Bookshop” by Jenny Colgan and “Christmas by the Book” by Anne Marie Ryan though clearly both Christmas books