Not my favourite in this series. I am wondering too if the concept has been overdone, the bookshop holiday romance. As for the main characters in this story, I'm not sure I believed in their chemistry. And I felt for Paige. I actually think she was used, much as Harri tried to persuade himself otherwise. The setting was lovely as always. With thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Loved the continuation of The Borrow a Bookshop stories. If you haven't read the series , the books are all a great read all with new characters but catching up with the old ones. Bookshop, beautiful village , great characters and loved the reading for wellness message.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

2.5 ⭐️ rounded up.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this book: The setting is idyllic, cute friends to lovers trope, well written. However, it just didn’t work for me. I think I had a hard time believing in the chemistry of these “friends”. There were also some sub-plots thrown in that felt a bit random. I found my attention drifting quite often, leading me to think there were some issues with the pacing. I am curious about other books in the series and still might read one of those to see if I like it better. It’s a cute concept.

I loved this! It was great to be back at the borrow a book shop. It’s great how new characters are brought into familiar settings and we get to catch up with old friends while making new friends.

Harri and Annie were great characters and I liked getting their back story and watching their lives over a decade of friendship no matter the distance between them. Navigating their feelings for each other, both hiding their truth from the other, it just takes a few interfering Clove Lore residents to set them right.

Mrs C and Bovis nearly stole the show, but Harri steps up and shows Annie how he really feels, with the help from some of the residents.

I can’t wait to see who holidays at the bookshop next.

Hari an Annie meet again after years apart, they get a chance to run a bookstore for two weeks. a friend to lover's romance.

A really nice friends to lovers story. I think I would have benefited from reading the previous books in the series, but I was still a nice read

A lovely return to the borrow a book shop. Annie and Harri are the new borrowers meeting for the first time in nine years after university. Their close friendship is tested and their own personal demons need to be confronted before either can find peace. I enjoyed this new episode in the series but wished it had followed the borrowers intro Annie’s battle or told us more about William’s future.

I have read all off the borrow a bookshop series so far and still enjoy them.
This one is just as good as the rest.
Annie and harri met in unii 10 years ago and arranged to goon the waiting list for the borrow a bookshop holiday.
After waiting and having to cancel it they finally get there.
The locals as usual like to bet on whos going to get together while they are staying there.
But Harri doesn't think Annie likes him like that and Annie thinks the same only to find out at the end of the holiday that they have always liked each other all this time.

Having loved all of the previous books in the borrow a bookshop series I couldn’t wait to get stuck into the latest instalment. This was another fabulous read where we see the return of the previous inhabitants of the village alongside the new recruits to the borrow a bookshop Harri and Annie old friends from university.

As always there was so much more to this story than simply books and romance as it included love and loss and friendship alongside the usual community and village camaraderie

I say this every time I read these books but I would love a turn at running the borrow a bookshop and would be the perfect holiday for me.

Friends-to-lovers is a favorite trope of mine. Because it's never about instalove. It's about shared memories, experiences and difficult times they've been through together. And that's what love is about, according to me.

As I've probably said in every review I wrote about the books in the series (I've read them all), Clove Lore is on my To-Visit list (or at least the village it has been inspired by). Both because the scenery is wonderful but mostly because of its people. And I love meeting them again and again.

The Borrow A Bookshop series is about romance but so much more.
In this instalment, you'll meet Harri and Annie, uni friends who managed to keep in touch for eight years while each being on a different side of the Atlantic Ocean.

They're both struggling in their lives and those two weeks in Clove Lore couldn't come at a better time.

They're sweet and kind (probably a bit too much, as they're constantly interrupted when something might happen at last between them ! Soooo annoying for the reader haha).

The writing is always perfect, the atmosphere warm, Valentine-y but not too much. So heartwarming, like the best armchair you'll ever sit in with a hot cocoa to watch snow fall in winter.

Two bestfriends reunite to find they are both suffering from broken hearts by broken relationships. They journey into an investigation in down and get locked into a building causing them to discovering their deep connection once again. This was really cute and I enjoyed the main characters personalities.

This was such a great and beautiful romance. I loved the slow burn and it led up to the most satisfying conclusion. Highly recommend this gorgeous love story

Every book lovers dream is to run a book shop, so when the opportunity comes for Harri and Annie to run a lovely bookshop in a small village in Devon for a fortnight, they sign themselves up. Annie and Harri have been best friends since uni, although life gets in the way and they drift apart a little over the post uni days, hopefully this holiday will bring them back together. Will their friendship be enough? Or is there more there for the both of them?

This is such a lovely feel good book about friendship, love, loss and everything in between.

Another good story in the series of a couple running a bookshop for two weeks, and naturally romance comes along for the ride. This one has Harri, a Welshman going through a separation from his wife, and Annie, a librarian from Texas. They were best friends 10 years ago at college and although they never did anything about they both felt sparks back then and now. Enjoyed this one, except for a spot where she was dealing with an issue of her former school in Texas and made snide comments about the parents and their politics. Can easily guess who this author voted for, and do not see the need to interject into this story. Still though, overall liked this one and the side story with William. Would recommend.

Oh my the best Borrow a Bookshop yet. I loved it 20o per cent . Williams story was sad and happy . Annie and Hari ‘s story of uni friendship was so moving. I love the bookshop. Can read as a stand alone but the other books are ace . Fab ending.. Read and escape .

I LOVED this book. Truly just a feel good time the whole way through.

Also, who hasn't wanted to borrow a bookshop?

Friends to lovers. A wonderful setting. I could not have asked for more.

Oh this book is absolutely darling in every way! I could not put it down. It was just so sweet from start to finish. I adored the main character and the journey she went on throughout the book. Highly recommend.

I love the Borrow a Bookshop series so was excited to receive a preview copy of this latest one in the series. Thanks to net galley and the publisher.

It was great to catch up with all the characters I’d met and loved in the previous stories and to meet some new ones including Harry and Annie who are the latest renters of the bookshop.

Kiley Dunbar always includes a social message in her books and this time it’s about whether or not certain books should be banned or only made available for certain audiences.

The characters continue to entertain and the new ones were all well written. I cared about their fates and read the book fairly quickly.

I would recommend this novel to others.

Brilliant visit back to the borrow a bookshop and all the extended villagers in Clove Lore. Two new visitors take over the bookshop for two weeks they are old university friends Welsh Harri and American Anni. They have kept in touch in the passing years but havnt actually seen each other from they graduated.
The village also helps an elderly man who shows up very confused but he turns out to be someone close to the area.
Brilliantly written as usual and already looking forward to the next booksellers and their adventure.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this book!!

What a great book!! It had me hooked from page one! I couldn’t put this down. I finished it in one sitting. I enjoyed the storyline and the characters. This was a first for me by this author but it will not be my last!!