reviewsbyerin

If you enjoyed The Printed Letter Bookshop, you'll be thrilled to know Of Literature and Lattes takes us back to the town of Winsome and gives us a chance to reconnect with many familiar characters while also embracing new ones.

Alyssa is heading back to Winsome with hardly more than the clothes on her back. Her job imploded in corporate scandal and she's waiting for an appointment with the FBI agents investigating the case. She hopes her dad will let her stay with him, because she definitely doesn't want to stay with her mom Janet, no matter what she's heard about Janet's recent life changes.

There's a new owner at the coffee shop. Jeremy is fresh from Seattle and longs to transform The Daily Brew into something that could be found in any downtown in America. But will his big city ideas fit with Winsome?

This book is a minefield of family relationship issues. It's relatable but not light. Sometimes it even felt like a punch in the gut. One thing I appreciated was that it pulled me in right away, and I liked that it focused so much on Janet's family and getting to see what happened with her after the end of The Printed Letter Bookshop. The stylistic choice of shifting point of view characters within scenes was odd but not terribly off-putting once I got used to it.

I would certainly recommend reading The Printed Letter Bookshop before this one, and based on the way this ended, I would expect a third book set in Winsome to come next.

I received my copy of the book from the publisher. All thoughts in this review are my own.