librarianryan 's review for:

The Christmas Book Hunt by Jenny Colgan
4.0
emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

 
The only thing I don’t like about this book is it an Amazon original. Which means it’ll be impossible for libraries to buy for their patrons if they’re not using Libby. In this book, we have a woman who finds out that her aunt is dying and her aunt wants one thing , a book from her childhood. A particular book of verse by Robert Lewis Stevenson illustrated by a particular artist. Our main character decides she’s going to try her best to find a copy of this book. Along the way she makes friends with a handsome young bookseller and the two of them are going to see if they can’t find this unique, rare, and eventually very expensive phantom copy of a book. This book was very sweet and heartfelt. It was a perfect read for Christmas. It does have romance in it, but the romance isn’t the main part of the story. The main part of the story really is the hunt in these old British book shops for a book so rare most people don’t believe it to exist. I loved almost everything about this if only it was put out by a publisher, other than Amazon.