I had my eye on this new release and thankfully got the opportunity to read it via NetGalley. To sum up this book in one word, I would choose “indecisive”.
I was initially interested in this title because I love books about books and The Bookshop Woman promises the joy of giving book recommendations. However, I should have read the synopsis more closely as I didn’t realise that Nanako would be meeting the new people to give book recommendations to via an online dating site, I thought that was pretty strange! It led to lots of mentions of sex throughout the book and I definitely didn’t enjoy some of the characters she met.
I did like some of the humour in the prose and I feel like the choice of narrator was perfect for the first person writing style.
The plot was quite repetitive and I felt bored listening to this book unfortunately. Even though the book is actually quite short, 220 pages and less than 6 hours via audiobook, I feel like the book really did ramble on, with very long chapters plus an epilogue and afterword.
Whist this wasn't the book for me, I can see it being quite popular in the right reader’s hands. 
2 stars

Thank you to NetGalley, Octopus Audio and Nanako Hanada for the opportunity to read this advanced reader copy.