Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Review will be posted closer to publication date.

I couldn't put this one down! I loved Darcy and how bookcentric she was! I liked how she grew throughout & figured out how to be herself and now hide behind her books.
Her relationship with her mom and the hoarding was tough, but I was so glad they were able to take their time and understand and forgive for mistakes. I liked how fiercely Darcy loved her mom and how she brought her grandma in to help her too.
I loved how her relationship with Asher developed and how understsnding he was. I liked how they looked past each other's flaws to see the real person underneath.
The relationship with her best friebd Marisol is so genuine and real and I loved that. I liked the charm necklaces and how they traded to keep a part of each other with the other when they were apart. I liked how Darcy saw things within Marisol's family that she knew she wanted to feel with her mom.
The curveball with her dad is handled well by Darcy and how she is just going to take it slow there, is great.
I really liked seeing the inside to a hoarding life and how it affects the family.
A great read!

This was such a light and easy contemporary! I truly adored every single second of it.

The Library of Lost Things focuses on Darcy, a bibliophile who prefers to stay hidden on the sidelines instead of being in the spotlight. Darcy is hiding a secret, however: her mom is a compulsive shopper and has an addiction to hoarding her purchases. Darcy finds her safe haven in her bedroom, the one place where her mom's hoarding hasn't touched and she can find solace in her books.

However, along comes Asher, a boy who makes her realize she may have had enough of being invisible.

This is the PERFECT contemporary read, and I highly recommend it. I saw a lot of myself in Darcy, and I feel as though other readers will too.

This was a light, easy love story that also presented some deeper issues without feeling too heavy-handed. It reminded me of Cath Crowley's "Words in Deep Blue" with the bookstore backdrop and the different emotional struggles that Darcy is experiencing. I think younger readers of YA romance will especially enjoy this one. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the advanced copy!

Occasionally I like to read some teen fiction just to see what is going on in their lives nowadays. Well it seems like teenage angst is still alive and well; parents are less important than BFFs, the social scene reigns supreme, romance is always longed for, part time jobs are often a necessity and sometimes social media is used as an efficient communication tool (it is supposed to be). In her book, The Library of Lost Things, Laura Taylor Namely does not disappoint on any of these fronts. In fact she throws in a nerdy bibliophile, Darcy, who spends much of her life hiding the fact that her mother is a hoarder from the rest of the world.

This novel is nicely written, it follows the traditional story arc, and deals realistically with the everyday life of today's teenager. The teenage characters are well developed while the adults are just left on the sidelines – showing us that Namely has a good grasp of the psychie of adolescents everywhere!

This book would be especially appealing to teenage girls and is a nice inoffensive read.

I really wanted to love this book and it ended up being a disappointment. The story was boring and the writing was so contrived that I could not even finish the book.

Very disappointed.