Days At The Morisaki Bookshop

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is everything but what the title says. A 25 year old female protagonist, going through a terrible breakup, moves into her uncle's second hand bookstore and has a “seemingly” life altering experience in the first half. The second half completely revolves around why her aunt left her uncle 5 years ago without so much as a word. Do we care? I don't.

The characters are flat, dull, boring, and lack any depth. The interactions between the characters are boring, and dry. The author tries real hard to put an emotional spin to the whole thing, but honestly, it was really hard to care. The writing is overly simplistic, immature, and the narrative style was so boring, I actually fell asleep twice while reading this book. At some point, it starts to read as a teenager's journal entry, than a novel.

I really wanted to like it. I really did want to like it. I thought this will be my perfect cozy read in between other ‘heavier' works. But it just did not do it for me this time. I just do not see the appeal of this book.

Why 2 stars? Well, the cover is gorgeous! But please, do not judge this book by it's cover!