It took a few chapters to get into, but once I had I was hooked and then couldn't put the book down. It was a wonderful and breezy read. Books about books/booksellers are always fun to me since I have the same gentle madness that many of the characters seem to have (and I seem to have been finding a number of them in the last year or so -- [b:Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore|13538873|Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore|Robin Sloan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1345089845s/13538873.jpg|6736543] and [b:The Thirteenth Tale|40440|The Thirteenth Tale|Diane Setterfield|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1346267826s/40440.jpg|849453])

This had an interesting structure which only lightly foreshadows coming plot, but then very subtly without giving absolutely everything away. The small twist was fun and interestingly pulled the plot and characters all together toward the end.