Book Review of "The Little Paris Bookshop" by Nina George.

I didn't like this story as much as I anticipated I would. I like the basic plot of the book, a bookseller who heals through prescribing books to people from his floating bookstore. A fifty year old bookseller who has never gotten over a love lost decades before, and his search for answers to questions that have remained unanswered for years.
However, I found I was unable to relate to the characters and felt little for their triumphs and problems. It took fifty pages before I got to the heart of the plot and past the descriptions of Perdu, the bookseller's, neighbors.
George does a great job of weaving in quotes, snippets of plots, and the many reasons people read a book, but in all I found the characters and structure of the story lacking. George keeps adding more and more characters to a story and none are interesting.
Based on my experience with stories like this such as "Shadow of the Wind" I expected to love this story, but by the end it was a chore to read.


I was provided a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review by Books for Blogging.