Well, I don’t know about Astrid, but I’m tired of discounting myself in hopes that Dahlia will finally want to buy me.” “She’s a window shopper and we’re the books inside.

It has some nice and heartwarming moments but just the overall premise doesn't seem to work out between the two. The dynamic between the love interests was poorly executed that I couldn't find myself to simply enjoy their romance. He saw her passed by, he likes her, he tried to woo her but with a wrong move, promptly, starting fuel between the two with their childish and stupid pranks leaving me baffled at how the story goes. He just happened to fall in love at first sight (I guess) which was rather insta-love given the lack of establishment for the couple, with no sense of emotional connection. Meanwhile, Jasper is not as bad as he seems. Which then leads to stupid assumptions that are usually 1) not true 2) presumptuous 3) get around to unnecessary drama. Not to say her abandonment issue thanks to her mother, she can't help but build a wall for her romantic relationship just so she won't get hurt if they happened to leave her as her mother used to. What not is her way of daunting everyone around her just because things don't go her way. She has to fight for it and that is understandable.

Knowing she had to lose them over a rival book store just doesn't sit right with her. The book store she worked at from a family business, is almost like a family member to her. Madeline is childish, self-centred and dramatic. I wanted to understand Madeline so bad but somehow her personality made it easier for readers to focus on her bad sides instead of the good ones. It almost felt justified to whatever reactions or feelings she had given the situation. I see where she is coming from, having a mother who abandons her, a stepbrother who may or may not rub you on the face for having a father you don't. Like it's trying to be there but it's barely there, by having an only difficult and childish character as its focus. The first problem I already have with this book is that: it's plotless. I just have to apologize for what I have to write but if I have to summarize the whole book, I'll just say it is: the book of people with issues 'Like getting a paper cut followed by a million paper cuts, just when the first one had stopped hurting.

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