The Little Paris Bookshop Book Review

Title: The Little Paris Bookshop

Author: Nina George

Genre: Fiction, Drama, Paris, Healing, Sorrow, Books

Plot: In Paris there is a little boat filled with books and maned by a lonely old man with a broken heart. Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary and uses books to heal other people's aches and pains, but his own heartbreak he buries deep within and never looks at. Until a new tenant needs a table and he pries open the past inch by inch, starting with the locked up dusty kitchen. As he finally begins to process his past and learn to live with it in order to salvage his future, ghosts and whispers haunt his every moment, taking on one particular form both loved and loathed.

With a letter in hand and several unexpected guests, Perdu hauls anchor and goes on a quest to discover the truth and to mend his broke heart after all these years.

Likes/Dislikes: I couldn't get into this book and skipping ahead to see if it gets any interesting only showed me that I probably won't like how some of the story progresses. It's beautifully written and flows like a river. I love books written like this. But the story the words paint is a sad one interspersed with what seems like an awful lot of sex. It fits the story well but makes me a bit uncomfortable reading. Funny huh, considering some of the other books I've read. *smiles* I really love the book's cover and all the lovely bonus things at the end like recipes and book lists. I just wish the story was for me.

Rating: PG-18 and up, mainly for content {several past sex scenes but not horribly graphic and one character wants to be married and have an affair with two men, while another is left by her husband for another man, etc.}.

Date Review Written: October 8th, 2015

I received a free copy of this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review. I wasn't required to write a positive review and the opinions expressed in the above review are my own.