I love Abbi Waxman's books, and the minute I saw this was available I snapped it up and read it in a day and a half.. It's fun that she has characters from her earlier books appear in cameos in her later ones. It makes me want to reread the earlier books. This was an engaging, quick read with the payoff one would wish for in a rom-com. The tone of this book differed a little from her earlier ones, I thought. It reminded me of Eleanor Lipman's writing. Which is a compliment; I enjoy both author's work in a similar way.

I really enjoyed this book, it has a great heroine and is very entertaining. Nina is an only child, is bookish, anxious, and keeps to a strict schedule. She likes her life just the way it is. Then one day she finds out that the father she never knew has died and she has a whole new family to be a part of. The book is all about Nina dealing with this new family, her job at a local book store, and a possible romance with a new guy, a lot of stuff with someone with anxiety issues to deal with.

Nina is great, I could totally relate to her being a bookish introvert myself. What I really liked about her was the fact that she is quiet and socially awkward, but she can stick up for herself when she needs to. The whole new family added a fun dynamic to the book that led to some laugh out loud moments. The romantic side of the book is cute and sweet and all in all this was a very enjoyable read.

Nina lives a solitary life and she likes it that way. She has her books, her cat and for social interaction, a trivia team. Life goes along very well, thank you very much, and then her father dies. All terribly sad of course, or it would have been if she even knew he existed. No, the horrible thing about the death of her father is discovering that she has a family, a huge, loud, interfering family who threaten Nina’s well-ordered world. all us introverts and bibliophiles will identify with Nina ( I liked her life before better) as she struggles to cope in a noisy, nosy world