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A review by theshaggyshepherd
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
4.0
I had a really good time with this book! I borrowed the audiobook from my library to use along with the ebook and it was a good experience to be able to switch back and forth between the two. The narrator was a really good fit for the story.
I read a lot of fantasy books with young protagonists so having a character in her fourties with her live falling apart felt really refreshing. That was of course sucky for her but what a dream to live vicariously through someone else to move to a small town in Scotland and fall in love with the owner of a bookshop!
I enjoyed the dynamic between the fMC and her acquaintance-boss-lover really fun to follow from the start! I love how she handled his grumpiness and how she showed his appreciation in small ways. And I was just as fascinated with his mess of a love life as she was!
This is a relatively slow and meandering book but it worked perfectly for this story. I loved the comeuppance at the end for her ex and the way some other stuff was handled at the end. Her love interest did turn very sappy, though adorable, at the end and I sometimes thought there was too much inner monologuing going on but overall, I really enjoyed this story and am glad I finally got to it.
I read a lot of fantasy books with young protagonists so having a character in her fourties with her live falling apart felt really refreshing. That was of course sucky for her but what a dream to live vicariously through someone else to move to a small town in Scotland and fall in love with the owner of a bookshop!
I enjoyed the dynamic between the fMC and her acquaintance-boss-lover really fun to follow from the start! I love how she handled his grumpiness and how she showed his appreciation in small ways. And I was just as fascinated with his mess of a love life as she was!
This is a relatively slow and meandering book but it worked perfectly for this story. I loved the comeuppance at the end for her ex and the way some other stuff was handled at the end. Her love interest did turn very sappy, though adorable, at the end and I sometimes thought there was too much inner monologuing going on but overall, I really enjoyed this story and am glad I finally got to it.