

I truly appreciated his humanistic and generous depiction of the BookFrogs. (A special note to librarians or booksellers: It’s obvious to me that the author has spent time working in a bookstore and that his wife is a librarian. Recommended for reading on the beach, in an airport or anywhere else you like to read fast-paced books with great characters. The ending of this debut novel was both shocking and satisfying and left me looking forward to the next book by Matthew J. Then I got caught up in Lydia’s intense and personal need to find out why Joey, whose future had seemed brighter than most of the other BookFrogs, had taken his own life. I raced through this debut novel in just a couple of days and loved everything about it! The bookstore setting in Colorado with its quirky employees and customers first attracted my interest.
