Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady
💖💖💖💖/5
Josie Klein and Ryan Lawson have two things in
common: they both love books and each manages a bookstore. Ryan manages Happy
Endings a romance only bookstore, where he has worked for over a decade. Josie mangers
Tabula Inscripta, a bookstore focuses on literary fiction. In between their
stores is a café, Beans. When the owner decides to merge both bookstores and
threatens to keep only the highest performing manager, the gloves come off. Aas
things heat up in this high pressure competition, each turns to their online
BookFriends forum and their newfound anonymous friendship for comfort. Little
do they know, they are already sharing their lives with each other in that
online book forum. At first there is sabotage and insults between them but they
realize they need to combine their knowledge to make the store more profitable.
I was impressed with the way Ryan’s dyslexia
is incorporated into the story, in a realistic way, without becoming a label.
My favorite aspect though, is that it tells the
ultimate love story between book and reader. Every mention of a review, a blurb,
an ARC, etc. made me excited that I was able to recognize most of the books and
authors mentioned. The books and the dueling bookstores definitely tried to
steal the show, but Ryan and Josie were still able to find their happy ever after
with a forever kind of love.
#NetGalley #Berkley #BattleOfTheBookstores
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