Confessions of a Curious Bookseller: Book Review
Fawn has ran a business as long as she can remember whether she wanted to or not, thanks to her father. She has owned the Curious Cat Book Emporium for more than just a few years, and now there is a new hipster looking bookstore moving in down the street. Fawn now has to compete with this new owner, or she might find herself closing her store.
This book follows Fawn through her life over a span of about eight months, her trials and tribulations with the bookstore, her family, and the competition down the street. Not to mention the tenant that doesn’t seem to know where she is or who she’s talking to these days. If you like a book that has things happen like how they happen in real life (one sucky thing right after another), this is the book for you.
Personally, I give this book a four out of five stars. I will say that it got half of that score just for the falling action. I absolutely HATED the main character, she’s a know it all, doesn’t like to be told she’s wrong, and for the love of God, the resentment that she had towards her family is ridiculous! If I talked to my parents the way she did, I would’ve gotten my mouth popped! Granted she does the majority of her bad-mouthing over email, but still! Elizabeth Green, my hat’s off to you because you were damn near spot-on for my sister! I couldn’t stand Fawn because she reminded me so much of her! (I will say, remember what I said about the falling action ;) ) I didn’t hate her by the end.
If that doesn’t entice you enough, the fact that Green also gives us the replies to Fawn’s emails! The people in Fawn’s life do not just take her sass sitting down! I greatly greatly appreciate her giving us that writing style instead of just doing the diary entries. The replies to Fawn from her mom, her sister, the competition, and even her own employees are really what got me through the first half of the book. The people around Fawn were trying to help her get out of her own way.
This book would be good for late middle school and up. I could easily see more bookstores popping open with the more popular this book has become. Even though the only bookstore we really got an inside look of was the Curious Cat Book Emporium, Green made sure to include everything she could without Fawn breaking her own rule of never going into that store.
