Thank you to Lake Union Publishing, NetGalley, and the author for the gifted ebook copy. All opinions in this review are my own.

I liked The Lending Library in the beginning when it was more focused on Dodie setting up the library and recommending books to her patrons. Once the focus of the story shifts to Dodie obsessing about having a baby, I lost interest. Because she feels pressure to find a man, marry him, and have a baby in two years, it cheapened the romance that Dodie is eventually able to find. It made it hard to tell if she had true feelings or just felt pressured by her own timeline.