Helpful Score: 2
Bit of a slow start but after first 2 chapters, I loved it! I love browsing independent bookstores and it was fun to read about this bookstore. Add mystery, family drama and romance and a great book is made! Highly recommend!
Helpful Score: 2
Can you forgive someone who started your life with a lie? When Miranda's Uncle Billy dies, she goes to LA for his funeral and a visit with her parents. She is shocked when she learns he left the bookshop he owned to her. Miranda embarks on a journey of discovery, deception, forgiveness and acceptance. Good read.
Helpful Score: 1
There were things I liked about this book and things I disliked.
The good things: There was a scavenger hunt for Miranda, the main character, to find out a "secret". Miranda inherited a bookshop from an uncle that she hadn't seen in 16 years and he left her clues to follow. She wasn't even sure, however, why she was following these clues. The clues were very clever and incorporated quite a few book titles and quotations to find the next clue. I enjoyed all the references to the books that were used. A scavenger hunt of this kind to find something fun or a prize at the end would have been very enjoyable.
What I didn't like was the whole idea of a scavenger hunt to reveal the "big secret". It seemed like a lot of work on the part of both parties when the truth could have and should have just been told to Miranda. I love scavenger hunts for the fun of it. This hunt was to reveal a hurtful secret that should have been dealt with in a more loving and passionate way. I guess though if she had just been told, there would not have been a story to tell.
The good things: There was a scavenger hunt for Miranda, the main character, to find out a "secret". Miranda inherited a bookshop from an uncle that she hadn't seen in 16 years and he left her clues to follow. She wasn't even sure, however, why she was following these clues. The clues were very clever and incorporated quite a few book titles and quotations to find the next clue. I enjoyed all the references to the books that were used. A scavenger hunt of this kind to find something fun or a prize at the end would have been very enjoyable.
What I didn't like was the whole idea of a scavenger hunt to reveal the "big secret". It seemed like a lot of work on the part of both parties when the truth could have and should have just been told to Miranda. I love scavenger hunts for the fun of it. This hunt was to reveal a hurtful secret that should have been dealt with in a more loving and passionate way. I guess though if she had just been told, there would not have been a story to tell.
