Sorry for the late post! Only a few weeks into this resolution to post regularly and already I’m falling down on the job. I promise I have a good excuse though. My oldest is in the hospital with appendicitis and I spent all of yesterday afternoon when I would have been putting the finishing touches on my review waiting on results from various tests and getting his surgery scheduled. As a result, this review isn’t quite as polished or in-depth as I’d prefer it to be, but I’m afraid I don’t have the bandwidth at the moment to do better!
Although she’s written a ton of books, Jackie Ashenden isn’t an author I was familiar with prior to requesting an advance copy of Book People. The cover is what initially drew me in for this one. Look at it:
It’s adorable, right? I’m a book person, so of course I want to read a book about book people. The premise is simple enough: rival bookstore owners and all the shenanigans that entails. The book is full of tropes – small-town romance, enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine, and forced proximity but somehow doesn’t feel stale or overdone.
In Book People we meet Kate who has recently lost her mother and left her ass of a boyfriend. She’s moved to the small town of Wychtree to take over a piece of property she inherited and turn it into the bookshop of her dreams. The only problem? The unfriendly (but hot) Sebastian located directly across the street who runs his own bookshop and who isn’t happy about having competition.
Book People is a fun, light read that you might find to be a good distraction from the general shittiness of the world right now.
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