The Boy with the Bookstore
Book Feature - The Boy with the Bookstore by Sarah Echavarre Smith
HBL Note: If you loved The Hating Game and The Kiss Quotient, or if you love books about books or books about dessert, and if you’re looking for a feel-good novel that also brings a little heat, then THE BOY WITH THE BOOKSTORE should be your next read! It is an enemy-to-lovers romance about Joelle Prime who owns a Filipino bakery and Max Boyson who owns the neighboring bookstore. But tensions rise when their landlord springs on them a massive renovation to the building they occupy. And if I’ve learned anything from my experience rebuilding our home after a fire, it is that tensions are sure to rise and tempers are sure to be short during construction projects.
Book Feature - The Boy with the Bookstore by Sarah Echavarre Smith
From the publisher:
Max Boyson looks good...from a distance. But up close and personal, the tattooed hottie Joelle Prima has been crushing on for the past year and half has turned into the prime example of why you shouldn’t judge a book by his delectable cover.
When she first learned about the massive renovation to the building they share, Joelle imagined that temporarily combining her Filipino bakery with Max’s neighboring bookstore would be the perfect opening chapter to their happily ever after. In her fantasies they fed each other bibingka and pandesal while discussing Jane Austen and cooing over her pet hamster, Pumpkin. Reality, however...is quite different. Her gallant prince turned out to be a stubborn toad who snaps at her in front of customers, dries his wet clothes in her oven, and helps himself to the yummy pastries in her display case without asking.
But beneath Max’s grumpy glares, Joelle senses a rising heat—and a softening heart. And when they discover the real reason for the renovation, they’ll have to put both their business senses and their feelings for each other to the test.
