Honestly, I just feel disappointed. I used to really love this series. If you are looking for a romance, go elsewhere. The relationship (in the current time) was a lot of not seen at all until the very end. The plot as it were was boring and I saw it coming miles and miles away. I just don't know. I love magical realism, I don't know why Hawkins has gotten so boring with this series and the Dove sisters. Having multiple points of views in her books is really not working. And then the romance not being front and center has hurt the series too. I imagine she has at least 3 more books since there's 7 Dove sisters.

"The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams" follows Tay Dove who returns home after a romance ends. She's a historian/researcher who comes home to focus on her great great grandmother Sarafina and a puzzle she left behind for her daughter. When Tay starts researching, she reluctantly joins up with Rose Day's (a bookstore owner) grandson, Luke.

Look there are more points of view going on, we get Tay, Rose, Luke, and Sarafina's. It took more almost two weeks I think to just get through this one. I really didn't care about any of the "plot". The flow was awful from beginning to end. I think adding in Sarafina's point of view added nothing to the book. Rose's point of view was not welcomed at all. I wish that Hawkins would at least just focus on the two romantic leads (though they really were not in my opinion).

The other Dove sisters pop up, but they felt like weird characters that Hawkins did not know what to do with it. It was odd. I just don't know. This felt like a filler book to me.

The ending was not a surprise. I do think it was nice to see Zoe and Grace again.