The other characters have all had 2 books to be familiar, but she hasn’t. Hannah’s blog also helped really get into her perspective, as she’s not the narrator but a super important character and new to the cast. Without every being site-specific, the multimedia aspect helps it feel more realistic as it is the way we communicate these days. There group chats, DMs, and texts are back, but this time we also get entries from Hannah’s blog. Like the previous entries, BOOKISHLY EVER AFTER is multimedia. We also get to see a m/f best friendship! Yes to more YA books where a girl and a boy can be best friends without it turning into a romance. Hannah, the love interest, is Autistic and Ed is dealing with the uncertainty around his mother dating again and his father pushing toxic ideals of masculinity onto him. Lucy Powrie’s books so far have all really stood out for being inclusive and tackling tricky topics, and BOOKISHLY EVER AFTER is no different.
Plus, he loves Shakespeare, so how can he be bad? The most enthusiastic and bombastic of the friends, he was always a complete laugh in the other books, and seeing him get centre stage was great, and a lot of giggles. They’re a group of friends who are completely comfortable around each other to be themselves, even if others would call them odd.Įd is a great narrator. They’re some of the few contemporaries where I can really see myself in these characters who love books and that’s brought them together into a close knit group. I’m not a big reader of contemporary generally (it’s mid-May at the time of writing this and I’m at 85% SFF, horror, and dystopia), but I adore this series. Can Ed let his guard down for the love of books? If Ed can find a way to be himself, he might find making new friends and keeping old ones comes more naturally, and even get to know himself a little better in the process. He decides to distract himself by being the best bookseller Woolf and Wilde has ever seen, but will it be at the cost of his Paper & Hearts Society friendships?
Then Ed discovers that his mum is dating for the first time since splitting up with his dad. He just hadn’t bargained on his new colleague, Hannah, seeing through his façade. So Ed does what Ed does best – smiles enthusiastically, fist pumps the air, and pretends that everything is totally under control. He’s just landed his dream job at beautiful independent bookshop, Woolf and Wilde, but he soon discovers being a bookseller is a very different game to being a customer – the hours of shelving books, logging ISBNs and dealing with customers is overwhelming.
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