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 

Boring romance subplot but an interesting mystery concept and execution. An easy, quick read