She just felt like a energy vampire to me. She ends up “befriending” three other colleagues she dumps herself on. She only talks to Beth when she needs cheered up/encouraged. She shuts herself away from her roommate who you can tell is hurt by it. I think what kills me is that I wondered why anyone was defending Nora and or trying to help her out. I think that Robinson wants you to feel for Nora, but I just thought how duplicitous she was through most of the book and I was not rooting for her. And honestly, though you feel for her and what happens at Parsons (taking a pay cut) she had options than the one she chose. It didn’t help that I saw her as being way too dependent on Beth and then on Andrew (she just shows up at his house without calling…who does that?) Looking to others to lift you up constantly is not a winning strategy and thought the book was being very dishonest about how hard it is to break the cycle of depression. Because the suicide, depression, and anxiety this character had through the entire book was a lot to wade through. I really wanted to beg Nora to see someone and obtain some medication. When Nora starts moonlighting at another publisher, she doesn’t know if she can pull herself out before she gets caught or worse. Nora keeps running into Andrew and finds herself pulled to him though she doesn’t want to be. When she messes up a lunch order though, she ends up meeting one of Parson’s bestselling authors, Andrew Santos. When her best friend at work, Beth, leaves for another job, Nora feels more adrift than ever. Though initially excited by her job (cause she loves books) Nora over the past 5 years has been grinded down by the cutbacks, layoffs, and salary cuts at Parsons. Nora is an editorial assistant at Parsons Press. “Must Love Books” follows 20 something year old Nora Hughes. Also, don’t tell me a book is similar to The Bookish Life of Nina Hill and it is not. However, everything else dealing with Nora, and the flow of the book was not. The only reason why I gave this two stars is that I thought the cover was cute and I honestly thought the writing was fine, and the character of Andrew was really great. I think what got me is that this entire book is pretty much joyless.
And honestly, I don’t think the heroine (Nora) is good enough for the hero (Andrew Santos) so that’s a no from me. I am fine with romance books taking on serious subject matters, but this book doesn’t end with a Happy Ever After (HEA), it ends on well there’s hope for one, done the line.
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