Netgalley: The Bookbinder's Daughter by Jessica Thorne

The Bookbinder's Daughter by Jessica Thorne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 Stars
A book written to celebrate the love of libraries, we all book lovers like this kind of stories where there is an exceptional library and a magical haven for books and for us, it is our dream to find one and to live many fantastic adventures within it. Libraries are our wonderlands and that's the idea the author might intended to transmit through her book.

The story is about Sophie (My favorite name for Heroines) who got offered from her uncle a job of a bookbinder at the Ayeredale Library where her mother disappeared mysteriously. Now, after her father's death and the end of a toxic relationship, she sees it as a good opportunity to discover the truth but what she doesn't know is that there will be so many mysteries to unravel and hidden secrets about her family's past and the library.

Now, it was interesting all this captivating worldbuilding relating to the tree of knowledge and the incorporation of metaphysics to the fantastical aspect of the story making it looks more smart and complex for the reader but it might not be appealing to everyone.
For the characters, they needed to be more developed and for this the author could have wrote a duology for this plot or another 100 pages, it really needed more space for the story and the characters background's development, it felt really rushed and like "I have to put everything in this one book". Also, I liked Will's sensibility and Tia's personality who even with the villains of the book needed to be really more developed.

I really liked the author's writing style which made me interested in reading her other books.

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