Alexus Henley’s Reviews > The Lost Bookshop > Status Update

I'm very afraid for Opal, her brother found her and has admitted her to an asylum. They're being treated horribly. On the other end Henry has lost funding for his research. I hope he will be able to get it sorted out, he's very determined. Martha's room with the tree has grown with more books accompanying it, and she has been informed through the book to look in the attic? I wonder what she might find.

Opal's pregnancy won't be as big a problem as I thought and she is very excited to be a mother. Martha is still recovering from losing her abusive husband in an 'accident', but she did have more words to tattoo come to her. When she went to get them done THEY WERE ALREADY THEIR!! Meanwhile Henry met with his father and had a touching moment, Henry has a lot of emotions to work through but he's returning to Ireland!

I have been really bad about updating when I read lol! I’m really enjoying this book. Martha attended her late husband’s funeral, Henry ended his engagement and is now an uncle. I hate the miscommunication between Henry and Martha, but I think they’ll have a happy ending. Also, Opal is pregnant. I don’t really know how to feel about this but I don’t think I like it.

Huge news, Henry is so obsessed with finding the book shop because he had seen it and been inside it before! Just like the woman who Martha’s employer told us a story about!

This book is really good! Henry and Martha are currently at odds, they aren’t arguing but they have a growing attraction that each of them keeps pushing away. Apparently Henry is engaged BUT I think he could do better *cough cough.

Henry and Martha have formed sort of a friendship and a little bit of a budding romance, they definitely are attracted to each other at the very least! It’s very cute. As for the main story, they haven’t discovered much else about the bookshop. Though Martha had discovered some deep cracks behind her dresser that she doesn’t recall being there before. Very mysterious.

Also, previously, Martha’s employer told her of a story where a woman had entered a bookstore believing it to be the employers home only for the store to disappear, leaving the home in its place. Side note: During this conversation I’ve found that I really like Martha’s employer. She reminds me of Madame from the Disney movie The Aristocats. Lol!

I’m really liking these characters and the world building. I especially love Henry and Martha’s dynamic, the way they bounce off of each other. They’ve also been “introduced” to Opal through old manuscripts Henry discovered while searching for this mysterious bookshop.

So, Henry and Martha are in the same time period. Opaline is from London, 1921. Henry and Martha have met twice now, the first time Martha had mistaken him for a peeping-tom and most recently they went for coffee where Henry told Martha what it is he’s looking for. Meanwhile, Opaline, who I’m going to call Opal for short, has found herself as an apprentice in Paris while escaping her family’s arranged marriage.

So far so good, nothing to really note yet. I enjoy the characters and they each have a few similarity’s. The major ones being that they each have a place that is homely but not their home and a love for books. Each character has a good hook and I’m interested to learn more, particularly about Henry.