This was such a light and easy contemporary! I truly adored every single second of it.

The Library of Lost Things focuses on Darcy, a bibliophile who prefers to stay hidden on the sidelines instead of being in the spotlight. Darcy is hiding a secret, however: her mom is a compulsive shopper and has an addiction to hoarding her purchases. Darcy finds her safe haven in her bedroom, the one place where her mom's hoarding hasn't touched and she can find solace in her books.

However, along comes Asher, a boy who makes her realize she may have had enough of being invisible.

This is the PERFECT contemporary read, and I highly recommend it. I saw a lot of myself in Darcy, and I feel as though other readers will too.

This was a light, easy love story that also presented some deeper issues without feeling too heavy-handed. It reminded me of Cath Crowley's "Words in Deep Blue" with the bookstore backdrop and the different emotional struggles that Darcy is experiencing. I think younger readers of YA romance will especially enjoy this one. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the advanced copy!

Occasionally I like to read some teen fiction just to see what is going on in their lives nowadays. Well it seems like teenage angst is still alive and well; parents are less important than BFFs, the social scene reigns supreme, romance is always longed for, part time jobs are often a necessity and sometimes social media is used as an efficient communication tool (it is supposed to be). In her book, The Library of Lost Things, Laura Taylor Namely does not disappoint on any of these fronts. In fact she throws in a nerdy bibliophile, Darcy, who spends much of her life hiding the fact that her mother is a hoarder from the rest of the world.

This novel is nicely written, it follows the traditional story arc, and deals realistically with the everyday life of today's teenager. The teenage characters are well developed while the adults are just left on the sidelines – showing us that Namely has a good grasp of the psychie of adolescents everywhere!

This book would be especially appealing to teenage girls and is a nice inoffensive read.

I really wanted to love this book and it ended up being a disappointment. The story was boring and the writing was so contrived that I could not even finish the book.

Very disappointed.