A short story feel of a novel that should have been a full length exploration in to the love someone has for books. It’s essentially a story of how a book is just waiting to find their right reader and how that reader is waiting for the right book to come into their lives. The beauty is that they don’t know this yet and it’s the girl who reads on the metro’s job to match the two.

A lovely idea but one for a short story as the novel moves too quickly on a surface level. It never really gets under the surface of this book matchmaking which could have been a really meaty and fascinating read.

Juliette – the girl on the metro – seems to be going through some sort of identity crisis/breakdown at the start of the novel but this storyline isn’t really explored. She has some sort of break down but then once she finds the books and her new job, everything is fine again. However, once the story does start, it starts quick and she finds this unusual and quirky bookshop and starts work, gets to know the owner well and starts matching books to people on the metro. She travels around a lot, people watches but it’s all very quickly glossed over. An avid bookworm, I wanted to feel her excitement at finding the shop, the joy of matching the books and watching the people but there wasn’t enough of anything. It’s a short novel , a short story really that needed to be a novel.