Days At The Morisaki Bookshop

I wish I liked this book more than I ended up liking it. To be fair to it, I started it in something of a lackadaisical mood and that hurt my impression of the first half, which was by far my favorite part of it. Reading about the bookstore itself and exploring two disparate but connected humans finding out about one another was very fun and exactly what I was hoping for in the book. The second half of it, however, completely lost me, and it's really a shame because I wish I knew why, too. I think I lost interest in the "new" character introduced and explored there, and was really looking forward to spending more time with those in the first half of the book. By the end of the book I felt sufficiently done with this story, which did leave me feeling sad. I give this overall a review right down the middle because when I liked it I was really thriving but when I did not like it I was just wholly uninterested, and it felt like that was squarely half and half.