This was a really good book, but make sure you pack the tissues (and you’ll need them almost immediately.)
Natalie Harper inherits her late mother’s failing bookshop and the care of her grandfather, suffering from dementia. With the bookshop (and her family home) falling down around them, will she be able to convince her grandfather to sell or lose everything?
Owning a bookstore, in theory, sounds wonderful — an excuse to read all the time, hundreds of books at your fingertips, living the dream — but the author did a great job giving the balanced view to this fairy tale in The Lost and Found Bookshop when Natalie inherits a failing bookstore from her mother and has to figure out if she can save it and if she even should try.
My favorite part of this story was probably Natalie’s grandfather Andrew and the relationship between the two of them. I thought they had a very sweet and positive way of viewing the world and their experiences, even when awful things happened to them. Honestly, I thought it was the most interesting piece of this story.
And I liked most of Natalie’s developing love story, although I really thought some of the conclusion to that part was a bit too convenient and easy, even for this genre. I also was hoping the Trevor Dashwood reveal would be very different from what was actually revealed, which was disappointing, but only because I had built up a whole different storyline in my mind.
I really appreciated the epilogue, as well. I was invested in Natalie, her grandfather, and the other more minor characters in this story, so it was really nice to get some closure as to what happens after the story ended.
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley, William Morrow, and The Book Club Girl in exchange for my honest review. It did not influence my opinion.