
Member Reviews

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
This book has so much potential. I loved the different stories in the different POVS, however there really wasn’t anything happening. There were essentially just a bunch of subplots, there was a small amount of character development with Sophie but that’s about it.
Overall, a nice casual one time read for me.

Bookish People is brimming with both character and characters, an artfully curated composition of calamitous comedy with Sophie's bustling, casualty-ridden bookshop (and the many catastrophes that befall it) at the core of it. Significant chunks of this book were absolute chaos, in the best way, and while I didn't personally click so much with the alternate-POV protagonists (their perspectives were slightly asymmetrical and thus their storylines, too, and their well-meaning political anxieties seemed like a stretch sometimes - plus, the poet stayed a caricature of himself for the most part) it was a pretty good time all in all - with the story twisting and coiling and changing course without warning, turning circuitous with some startling turns, the whole thing having an addled Shakespearean charm to it.
Bookish People appears crafted to appeal to any aficionado of books, bookstores and the topsy-turvy antics that beset them, with the added attraction of being a checkerboard-esque cross-generational workplace comedy (that, sure, plays into sundry stereotypes on many counts) cheering enough to win anyone over.
Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Muse for kindly passing on this ARC! 💫

OMG this book is hysterical! I fell in love with each and every character and did not want the book to end. If you consider yourself a bookish person, you will want to read this book.

While I did find the storyline easily palatable, I was really not vibing with the formatting of the book. The constantly present Harper Muse label made it so hard to read because you were thrown out of the book almost every page.
The plot itself was enjoyable and fun to read. I just hope the finalized version is better formatted.
Other than that, though, I would recommend this book to anyone who loves romance reads. This one is for us bookish people.