When Bader's parents died in a house fire, she ended her plans for law school and went home to run the family bookstore. Five years later, the world is changing once again and Bader's life changes with it. Does she have what it takes? Will she take risks with her heart and find her truth?
Given that I am currently in year 2 of the 2020 pandemic and am well aware of the geo-political situation regarding said pandemic, I don’t need fiction to drive the point home, nor do I want to read a book that has it’s own fictional pandemic as a plot point.
I didn't finish. There's a lot, in what I read, that I like. I love the characters, the pets and the bookstore. I'm thrilled to see an author recognize and write about an/the pandemic in a partially(this is fantasy) normalized manner. I'm usually neutral about insta-love but the book could win a prize for speed. Finally, it reads like the author created a plot checklist to go through and then made up reasons for the events in the checklist. This produces an unnatural flow which I find difficult to read.
I downloaded Becoming Bader, book 1 of the Winthrop Literary and Music Society series, as a free ebook from Amazon. I enjoyed this story and there were plenty of twists to make to keep things interesting.