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As many of you know, I love books about books, libraries, bookstores (I could go on) and mysteries. I had a very hard time putting this book down.
Lydia works full time as a bookseller in Denver, in an area that is gentrifying. The bookstore has attracts a host of what the employees in the bookstore call Bookfrogs, regulars who spend their days in the bookstore, many, but not all, who are homeless. Lydia is closing the store for the night when she finds one of the young Bookfrogs, Joey, dead. Ly ...more
Lydia works full time as a bookseller in Denver, in an area that is gentrifying. The bookstore has attracts a host of what the employees in the bookstore call Bookfrogs, regulars who spend their days in the bookstore, many, but not all, who are homeless. Lydia is closing the store for the night when she finds one of the young Bookfrogs, Joey, dead. Ly ...more
Another book that I would like to love more but jist couldn’t. The premise is so good- mystery inside a bookshop! Puzzles that are related to books! But actually the whole story doesn’t have much anything with books. Lydia, the main character, who is a bookseller, doesn’t seem like someone who actually liked books too much. And the way the story intertwined (sometimes in a too telling way) with Lydia’s past is too distracting from the current mystery and also from the bookshop itself. It’s just
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I borrowed this book from the library, and I absolutely loved it. It was twisty and turny and it kept me enthralled.
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Interesting. Loved the bookstore setting in Denver and the slow burn of the mystery. Didn’t live how one dimensional some of the characters were, others were more fully crafted so it seemed a little disjointed. I did enjoy it though and it was good on audio.
Too many sub plots and an unhappy ending.
Jul 02, 2017
Jennifer
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