reading books about bookstores while in bookstores 📖📚☕ [a cozy reading vlog]

This one surprised me a lot and I think I'm probably going to end up giving this one four stars. It doesn't feel like it was like the perfect five-star romance for me for like a few different reasons, but for the most part, I just really enjoyed this.

And I do think the message of the book is beautiful. I just felt so disconnected from everything that was happening in this. I felt so bored.

And I think it's because so much of this book is very slow paced and very boring. It's literally over like 150 pages into the book by the time things actually start to pick up in the plot and like get a little bit interesting.

I also do have to say that the time travel or like the magical realism element of this book, like I just wanted so much more out of it because I feel like not only was it never really explained, but it also just kind of never went anywhere. I guess I just wanted to see more of that happen because I feel like I've read a lot of books like this that have this kind of like magical realism like meeting your younger self type of thing.

And this book is another one that just kind of like changed my life when I read it. It was an easy five-star. This one made it into like one of my top favorite books that I read last year.

It was the first five-star book that I had in the year of 2025. It's a book that's really stuck with me throughout the year.