I picked this book up because I loved the summary: the idea of the library had so much potential. And I have never been so disappointed.
The plot was so predictable I knew exactly how the first book would go about thirty pages into, and then I had to wait three hundred pages for the characters to catch up. It was terribly, terribly boring.
This book has a serious problem with misogyny: all of the women are either pretty, in which case they are without fail going to fall in love with the main character, or ugly and reduced to being only that, no matter what else they might do.
And speaking about misogynists, let's talk about our main character, Will Piper, the most insufferable human being I had to read about.
There is nothing I like about him. He criticises all of the women he meets, shames his coworker for being overweight and for her personality, is all around an horrible person. I thought he was bad in the first book, but he gets worse: he cheats on his wife (said coworker, who becomes attractive because she loses weight and changes her personality), who by the way is almost twenty years older than him and just a few years older than his first daughter, and thinks his son is an ungrateful asshole while thinking of himself as a good father while in fact he is not in the slightest.
Also, every single woman falls in love with him, because women are all the same.
His whole character read like a male power fantasy and thanks, I hated it.
Perhaps I just wasn't the intended audience for this book, as a young woman, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, unless I hated them very, very deeply.