Jenn McKinlay's Love at First Book is a modern fairy tale. A sort-of-sequel to Summer Reading, it stars that novel's second banana heroine, librarian Emily Allen. Anxiety-ridden after a lifetime on Martha's Vineyard with her cruel mother, Emily is looking to start over. So when she gets an offer to work for her all-time favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, she moves to Ireland. Siobhan's fantasy series was a lifeline for Emily in her formative years, so helping to shape the highly anticipated next installment -- a novel ten years in the making -- seems like destiny.
However, the gig isn't without issues. It includes a stint at The Last Chapter, a bookshop that just happens to be run by Siobhan's gorgeous and curmudgeonly son. Kieran makes no secret of his distaste for Emily and her mission to remedy his mother's writer's block. Yet instead of letting herself be intimidated as she would've back home, Em challenges Kier's every objection, embracing the chance to reinvent herself. The result is a fiery frenemy-ship that ignites into something more. But as any book lover knows, no happy ending comes without its hardships. That said, as Em ventures more deeply into editorial terrain with Siobhan, she learns that there are some things that not even the luck of the Irish can fix.
Charming and chock full of literary quotes to earn the respect of any bibliophile, Love at First Book is for anyone who loves books as much as they love love and vice versa.
In other words, modern fairy tale magic.
