Shelved Under Romance by Kristin Billerbeck Review

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I pray today finds you all doing well, and I'm so thankful you decided to drop by my little corner of the internet.

Here on The Preppy Book Princess, I love sharing about my love of Jesus and books, and I especially love sharing about books that keep Jesus at the front and center of them.

I've recently been working my way through the last four novellas in the Smitten Novellas series which is written by four pretty well known Christian fiction authors.

These particular novellas comprise the bind up, Smitten Book Club, and I've been enjoying working my way through them.

If you'd like to check out my review of the first novella from this particular bind up, you can do so using the link below, otherwise keep on reading down below to read my review of the second novella.

Love by the Book

Shelved Under Romance by Kristin Billerbeck:

Source: Gift from my Hubby

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Publication Date: January 21st, 2014

Genre: Christian Fiction/Contemporary Romance/Novella

Series: Smitten Novellas

Synopsis:

The century-old "Gentlewoman's Guide to Love and Courtship" is no ordinary book club choice. But for the little book club in Smitten, Vermont, it might be their best pick yet!

Abby likes nothing better than losing herself in a Jane Austen novel. But her friendship with the adventurous Wyatt may be blossoming into a modern romance!

Abby is the sassy but introverted librarian member of The Smitten Book Club.She loves Austen novels and has kept the library's copy of "Persuasion" out of circulation more times than she couldcount.

Enter Wyatt, an outdoorsy patron who isdetermined to help the less-adventurous librarian learn to seize the day. But Wyatt and Abby encounter misunderstandings the likes of which even Jane Austen never imagined. Will this couple ever find their own happily ever after?

(synopsis from goodreads)

My Review:

Shelved Under Romance is a quick, clean contemporary romance novella that takes readers back to Smitten, and gives us Abby and Wyatt's story. While I've enjoyed these novellas as a whole, I've personally found that I haven't ended up enjoying Kristin Billerback's contributions, as much as I have the titles from the other three authors.

While this one did have some elements I ended up enjoying, like Abby having to learn to find her way back to truly living again, I honestly felt like it was really rushed, and the plot wasn't developed enough to keep me entertained throughout.

The romance is very insta lovey (even when taking the novella length word count into consideration), and it didn't end up seeming very believable. As well, the climax of the story seems to introduce too many plot points with not enough time to give them an adequate wrap up, and I was left feeling like something was missing.

I was rooting for Abby, and I enjoyed some more build up to the mystery that continues to play a part of each novella in the collection, but overall I didn't enjoy this one as much as I have many of the others, but I'm still looking forward to moving on to the next novella.

Final Rating: 3/5.

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day :)

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