DNF @ 80% - I love a book about books, a story about librarians and libraries, characters that discover the power of books in shaping who were are and escaping into another world. Unfortunately, this was not that in the slightest.

I started with this as an audiobook but moved to the ebook after not being able to focus on the story and the only difference the ebook made was making it easier for me skim.

The characters and literary references were one dimensional and while the books on 'the reading list' are true classics, many of which have deep pop culture references, it was unbelievable to me that the FMC (17 years old btw) had never heard of them. Did she just skip over all assigned reading in high school or what? Also, I couldn't help but feel massive amounts of ageism when it came to our MMC - yes, he's an older man, no that shouldn't make him completely incompetent to the point where he can't open a door? Like come on.