PENGUIN Love At First Book

read it, no second thoughts!

I have thoroughly enjoyed Jenn's mystery series the Library Lovers series. I didn't know she also wrote romance novels. I began a couple of days ago with Love At First Book, and I could not put it down. It was such a wonderful read! There was a great story to go along with the romance which developed. Also a great cast of characters, and my favourite setting for a book- Ireland! I 100% recommend this as a great read, the kind which restores your faith in all that's good about mankind.

Jenn McKinlay's Love at First Book is a modern fairy tale. A sort-of-sequel to Summer Reading, it stars that novel's second banana heroine, librarian Emily Allen. Anxiety-ridden after a lifetime on Martha's Vineyard with her cruel mother, Emily is looking to start over. So when she gets an offer to work for her all-time favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, she moves to Ireland. Siobhan's fantasy series was a lifeline for Emily in her formative years, so helping to shape the highly anticipated next installment -- a novel ten years in the making -- seems like destiny. However, the gig isn't without issues. It includes a stint at The Last Chapter, a bookshop that just happens to be run by Siobhan's gorgeous and curmudgeonly son. Kieran makes no secret of his distaste for Emily and her mission to remedy his mother's writer's block. Yet instead of letting herself be intimidated as she would've back home, Em challenges Kier's every objection, embracing the chance to reinvent herself. The result is a fiery frenemy-ship that ignites into something more. But as any book lover knows, no happy ending comes without its hardships. That said, as Em ventures more deeply into editorial terrain with Siobhan, she learns that there are some things that not even the luck of the Irish can fix. Charming and chock full of literary quotes to earn the respect of any bibliophile, Love at First Book is for anyone who loves books as much as they love love and vice versa. In other words, modern fairy tale magic.

eu não conhecia nada da autora, comprei o livro por curiosidade e acabei lendo pra alternar com outro de ficção científica que estava lendo… comecei a ler achando que era uma leitura fácil, um plot bem piegas de comédia romântica (que eu amo, inclusive). mas logo no começo eu vi que estava equivocada. a história é simplesmente uma delícia! me apeguei aos personagens, me apaixonei por eles, CHOREI HORRORES e definitivamente o livro entrou na minha lista (bastante curta) de melhores livros da vida! olha que eu sou criteriosa, e não costumo vir comentar sobre os livros que compro aqui… mas essa autora merece mais reconhecimento, por isso fiz questão de vir aqui dar minhas 5 estrelas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ APENAS LEIAM 🥹🫶🏻

I honestly think I liked this book better than the first one. I thought the characters of Em and Kier are just about perfect. I love that the normally quiet, introverted, and shy Em has no problems at all giving all the sass to Kier, which pretty much knocks him flat. Kier has had a lot of hard things happen, and you know change is hard for him from pretty much the get go. Siobhan is such a contrast to Em’s mom, and I loved watching Em and Siobhan’s relationship develop from an employee employer to family. This book made me laugh and cry and feel so strongly about the characters that I wish they were real people. I can 100% understand how Em felt about the Tig McMorrow books as I have felt like that about quite a few series, as I’m sure most readers have. The relationship between Em and Kier leaves a little to be desired, I felt like, at least on Em’s part, it was just a bit more hero worship, at least at first, and we didn’t really see much growth, just really good chemistry. I liked all the side characters that worked at The Last Chapter, and I hope we get to see some books about maybe one of them in the future. Like the first book in this series this is an open door book, and while descriptive, I thought it was a bit less than the first one. Such a cute, funny, adorable, quick read.