I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

... although when I requested it, I was confusing this series with a different one about librarians by Sarah Title. Anyway, in this novel, Mary is a vaguely dissatisfied librarian in a small town in Maryland, who receives an email from Miles requesting a membership so that he can access ebooks online. Miles is, for undeclared reasons, unwilling to come to the library to show his ID, and Mary bends the rules for him. Soon (in a manner which seems out of character with everything else we know about her), Mary is giving Miles her personal email address and they are emailing away merrily together.

At the same time one of Mary's many friends, most of whom I suspect are in the novel as they appeared in previous books in this series and therefore need to pop up again here, persuades her to try online dating. When Mary tells Miles she is about to go on a date with an online contact, Miles overcomes his reluctance and comes to the library to meet her.

Initially I found this book pretty humourless and hard work (lines and lines were devoted the the addresses and time stamps of the many emails that were exchanged, for example), but it grew on me to an extent. I enjoyed Mary's love of tear-jerker movies and the hockey-obsessed Natasha. On the other hand, the constant obsession with physical appearance and weight was unpleasant and off-putting. While there were lots of heavy-handed comments about how this was a bad thing, most characters were constantly described in terms like their "compact body" (Mary), the need Miles felt to lose his "pizza baby" before even approaching Mary, her sorrow at the loss of his "hint of pudge" which she felt had made him more likely to stay, and so on and so on.

The ending was sweet, although perhaps a little abrupt - an epilogue might have been nice.

I really enjoyed some of the answers Miles had when it came to some of Mary's questions:
She needed a minute to think. “I’d like to use your restroom, if that’s okay.”
His brows furrowed. “Are you crazy? Of course it’s okay. You’re my girlfriend. Live in there, if you’d like.”
I liked this book, Miles was real sweet.