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A review by obsidian_blue
The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery
2.0
Good grief
I definitely didn't mind the sexy parts that was great. Not typical for Mallery but it was still good to see in her romance book. But the overall book was just a mess. Don't read this book and think and it's just gonna be about a book shop, it's not. It follows three women, Ashley, Mikki, and Bree who go in together to buy a storefront on the beach. Bree runs the bookstore, Ashley a bakery, and Mikki a gift shop. All 3 women are at different points in their lives and of course they all are dealing with relationship issues. One romance came out of nowhere (felt forced), another had that whole I’m going to ignore what you say you want because I know what you need hero, and another had a potential second chance romance.
Ashley feels as if she knows where her life with her long term boyfriend is going, until he admits he wants to be with her forever, but not get married. Mikki is in a great relationship with her vibrator, but realizes she doesn’t want to be alone and bitter like her mother, so starts online dating. And last we have Bree, daughter of two literary powerhouses who doesn’t do long term relationships or love, til she meets Ashley’s brother (who is a psychopath). That last part was me.
It's 2022, it's okay if people don't get married, and Ashley started working my nerves about that entire thing. Considering most of my friends are now divorced, her thinking no marriage meant people could leave at any time drove me up the wall. Her entire storyline was boring.
Mikki was my favorite character. I loved her being caught between the road she took and a new one. If the book had just followed her I would have given this 5 stars.
Bree worked my nerves. For being so smart about others, she was blind to herself. And Mallory does my least favorite thing with an independent and sexually active woman, act like she’s not really happy til a man comes along.
The plot jumped around too much and the flow was pretty bad. I think things take place over maybe 6 months? Way too short for some of the things going on in this book. Way too many I love yours after like a day for me too.
The ending was ehhh, just not really satisfying except in Mikki’s case.
I definitely didn't mind the sexy parts that was great. Not typical for Mallery but it was still good to see in her romance book. But the overall book was just a mess. Don't read this book and think and it's just gonna be about a book shop, it's not. It follows three women, Ashley, Mikki, and Bree who go in together to buy a storefront on the beach. Bree runs the bookstore, Ashley a bakery, and Mikki a gift shop. All 3 women are at different points in their lives and of course they all are dealing with relationship issues. One romance came out of nowhere (felt forced), another had that whole I’m going to ignore what you say you want because I know what you need hero, and another had a potential second chance romance.
Ashley feels as if she knows where her life with her long term boyfriend is going, until he admits he wants to be with her forever, but not get married. Mikki is in a great relationship with her vibrator, but realizes she doesn’t want to be alone and bitter like her mother, so starts online dating. And last we have Bree, daughter of two literary powerhouses who doesn’t do long term relationships or love, til she meets Ashley’s brother (who is a psychopath). That last part was me.
It's 2022, it's okay if people don't get married, and Ashley started working my nerves about that entire thing. Considering most of my friends are now divorced, her thinking no marriage meant people could leave at any time drove me up the wall. Her entire storyline was boring.
Mikki was my favorite character. I loved her being caught between the road she took and a new one. If the book had just followed her I would have given this 5 stars.
Bree worked my nerves. For being so smart about others, she was blind to herself. And Mallory does my least favorite thing with an independent and sexually active woman, act like she’s not really happy til a man comes along.
The plot jumped around too much and the flow was pretty bad. I think things take place over maybe 6 months? Way too short for some of the things going on in this book. Way too many I love yours after like a day for me too.
The ending was ehhh, just not really satisfying except in Mikki’s case.