Number of stars: 2 out of 5
Genre: YA, Books about books, LGBTQ+
Edition: Ebook
Synopsis taken from author’s website:
Set over the course of one day, Aminah Mae Safi’s This Is All Your Fault is a smart and voice-driven YA novel that follows three young women determined to save their indie bookstore.
Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she’s in love with him.
Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it’s her.
Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day.
When Rinn, Daniella and Imogen clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they’re expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. Instead, they have to deal with the news that the bookstore is closing. Before the day is out, there’ll be shaved heads, a diva author and a very large shipment of Air Jordans to contend with.
It will take all three of them working together if they have any chance to save Wild Nights Bookstore.
My review:
I picked up this book because it was about girls saving a bookstore, and who doesn’t like that? However, I got board halfway through and put it down for awhile. The ideas were great, but I feel like Safi did a lot of “telling” and this is perhaps what made me lose interest.
The book read more like a game plan with the characters talking through their plans for chapters at a time and then running into the breakroom to go over the plan again… they even had a “Break!” moment.
I just wasn’t invested. I couldn’t connect with the cast of young people or their romances; I didn’t get any “feels”!
Happy reading,
Rlygirl
C'est la vie 