Review originally written on Goodreads on 07/02/20

I loved The Bookshop on the Corner so, so much. And I was actually very entertained by this one, but I found it incredibly frustrating for a lot of reasons.

Nina didn't seem to be the same character I loved from the first book. She was honestly obnoxious and rude in this one despite the synopsis literally calling her "the friendly local bookseller". The title and the cover do not match the plot of this book at all. It is not light and fun. There is a lot of darkness in this book that I was not expecting at all.

But the thing that had me wanting to chuck this book up against a wall was the constant editing errors. If I went back and highlighted all the errors I found in my first read, I bet you anything every single page would be marked for one reason or another. I just can't believe this book went through the final editing process because some of those errors were glaringly obvious. Names were interchanged, gender pronouns were inconsistent, words were misspelled left and right. Those sort of things make it incredibly hard to really stay focused in the story.

I feel like this could have been a four star read for me if I hadn't been so caught up in all those things that turned me off from the story entirely. Oh, well. I'll still check out Jenny's latest book in case this was just a one off occurrence.