The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks Shauna Robinson

by Shauna Robinson
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks on November 1, 2022
Genres: Fiction / African American & Black / Women, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Romance / African American & Black, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / New Adult, Fiction / Women
Pages: 336
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"A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken." — Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World and The Friend Zone

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.

When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.

And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken.

To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything.

Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all.

Review:

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks is a romance comedy that hits all the spots for a book lover. Our main character jumps at the chance to help out her college friend, who is going on maternity leave, run her bookshop in a quirky town. The livelihood of the whole city is based around a famous author, so much so that the bookshop only sells classics that were published around the time the author lived. The town’s residents must travel to the next town to purchase anything new. Maggie accepts the bookstore job as a temporary holdover until she can figure out her next steps, and the journey she takes while running this bookshop is terrific. There is a charming cast of characters, some for Maggie’s goal of bringing the bookshop into the modern times and others who hang dearly on to what their town is known for. I appreciated the romance but am glad it took a back seat to the heart of the story. The banned bookshop of Maggie Banks is a quick read and enjoyable treat.

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