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Aria's Travelling Book Shop Rebecca Raisin 384 pages | Published by HQ Digital
Publish Date: April 8, 2020
Aria is a free-spirited nomad on the outside, grieving widow on the inside. Off to travel France in her traveling romance book shop with her friends Rosie & Max, Aria begins to feel the loneliness of the life that she's settled into after her husband died. On the road, she finds herself running into handsome and kind author Jonathan and can't help but feel a connection, but before she can pursue a relationship with him she needs to give herself permission to move on past her grief.
Another cute read from Rebecca Raisin! After reading Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop and getting to know free-spirited Aria I was really excited to have a story from her POV. These books are light and breezy, have a touch of romance, but are also very much about friendship.
It was nice to get the characters out of their comfort zone - away from the UK and into France. I thought this book was much more travel-heavy - I truly felt like I was wandering the French countryside with our little group of nomads.
Aria's journey with her grief was very compelling. We learn in the previous book that she is a widow, but this story is very much about her coming to terms with her life now and giving her self permission to continue living fully.
My biggest qualm with this story is that we don't really have a great foundation for Aria and her love interest, Jonathan. We know they spent one day together, (but we didn't see it), they made out at a bar, and its nearly halfway through this book that we get a true interaction. I wanted Aria to pursue a relationship, but I didn't necessarily feel like as a reader I felt the draw of Jonathan for a while. Once we really saw the two interact though, I loved the pair together.
Thank you to NetGalley and HQ Digital for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review!
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