The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

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  For a lot of us, we always enjoy seeing books about bookish main characters and this is definitely one of those books. Nina Hill is very much a person who prefers a life-based in schedules. She has her book clubs once a week, trivia night once a week, and has always kinda been on her own. Her mother is a travel photographer who mainly left Nina with a nanny for most of Nina's life, and her father... well she never knew who her father was. UNTIL Nina gets a visit at her job at an independent bookstore from her father's lawyer, well her late father's lawyer. Apparently, Nina's father was a wealthy man with a rather large family and Nina gets thrown into the chaos of her father's side of the family: including several siblings, nieces, and nephews; Nina's family tree blooms from one branch to a full, blooming tree.

 All in all, this book is overall very cute. Most of the conflict throughout this book is internal: Nina vs her own anxiety. Even though she is considered the illegitimate child who was the result of an affair, none of her father's family really sees her truly as an enemy because it made every one of those family members so much more complex rather than the simple "evil stepsister" trope. Also, I really enjoyed how everything kinda looped back into each other. There wasn't a subplot that wasn't wrapped up in the end or seemed superfluous. 

My main complaints were two things: one was the love interest (which honestly might just be me) and  Nina's book taste. Let me start with Nina's book taste; why is it in most books the "bookish person" reads mostly classics? Based on the book, it seemed like the only books Nina read were classics and "early chapter books." Why the hell is it not called middle grade, I feel like early chapter books weren't really used since I read early chapter books and I'm 24. I'm not sure if books can't reference more modern books, but most books reference Harry Potter now, but that's just always bugged me. Now with the love interest; I'm writing this a bit after reading this but all I remember about the love interest, Tom, was that he did trivia and he pretty much was the foil of Nina. That's it. I don't remember much about his personality other than the fact that he didn't read, which seemed to be a red flag to Nina. I get that a relationship between two introverts probably won't work out, but why is it in books that the bookish person ends up with a person that never reads? I mean, it just bugs me (maybe this works the best and that might explain why I'm still single). 

All in all, this wasn't a bad book, I gave it a 3.5/ 5 stars on Goodreads and I would recommend this for anyone that wants a lighthearted contemporary (this does get a bit steamy btw) but this isn't a book that I would scream from the mountain that everyone needs to pick this up ASAP. 

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