Book Review: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

 Title: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Author: Abbi Waxman

Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre: Romance, Adult, Contemporary

Pages: 351

Publisher: Berkley

Year Published: 2019

Format: Audiobook

"The only child of a single mother, nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.

When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all0 or mostly all- excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis has turned out to be cute, funny and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?

Nina considers her options:

1. Completely change he name and appearance (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)

2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).

3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)

It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page."

My Rating: 5/5

I finished this book a few days ago and it really hit me in the feelings. So I decided to take some time to really process whether the 5/5 feelings were based on elements or based on the fact that this was the precise book that I needed to end 2020 with. This is what I found. It's exactly what I needed to end 2020 with. The romance, the atmosphere, the characters and the plot were all intriguing. But mostly the growth in characters, the feeling of being seen with our main character having social anxiety that is nearly crippling. It's something that I can understand and felt her pain watching her go through. Overall this book is a cute book lovers dream and I would recommend it to anyone interested.

Thanks for reading,

Sidny