I didn't love this much as Karina Bliss's previous book, but it was still a very enjoyable read. Jo and Dan were such well-crafted characters and I was sucked into the book.

The blurb is misleading, not in terms of plot, but tone, it makes it sound like this book is a romantic comedy and it's not, the book deals with a lot of heavy issues. There's a good dose of humor here, but I thought What the Librarian Did actually had more humor in it.

Dan's back home after a deployment to Afghanistan and is dealing with grief and guilt over dead teammates. Dan takes a joke engagement he had with Jo and tries to turn it into an actual engagement, so he can live big for his dead teammates. Jo is dealing with Dan's marriage plot, an ailing grandmother, health problems, and job issues. She has her own reasons for not wanting to get into a serious relationship and is annoyed that Dan is taking the joke too far.

The whole, hero planning a wedding for an unwilling bride could have been totally creepy and stalkery, but I thought it was actually charming and funny. Dan is trying to convince Jo to get married, but has no intention of forcing her to get married. And it helps that the two of them have a long standing friendship. There are no alpha-holes here.

I loved Dan and Jo. I'm a sucker for a good friends to lover plot, and this book delivered in spades. I loved that the two of them enjoyed a great platonic friendship, and that one of them wasn't pining for the other one for years. The gradual shift from platonic to not platonic was believable and I totally believe these two will go the distance.

Jo was such a strong heroine. Her relationship with her grandmother was one of the highlights in the book. She's dealt with so much in her life, and I really admired her resiliency. Dan has a solid-as-a-rock quality to him that I really liked. The two of them act like actual friends and talk out their issues, I love that there were no big misunderstanding scenes.

This was leading up to an A read, until the ending. The ending was rushed and the way Dan's character arc was resolved made no sense to me. I thought what Jo did was stupid, and I'm baffled at how her solution was supposed to help Dan. I think this book would have benefited from a longer word count and flesh out some plot/character arcs a bit more. Jo's issue seemed to be kind of pushed aside and never really resolved.

But then there was a ton of sequel bait in this book, and I'm guessing we'll be seeing more of these characters in later books.