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Release date: July 9, 2019

Publisher: Berkley

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Blurb:

The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. 

When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They’re all—or mostly all—excited to meet her! She’ll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It’s a disaster! And as if that wasn’t enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn’t he realize what a terrible idea that is?

Nina considers her options.

1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likesher hair.) 
2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee). 
3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)

It’s time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn’t convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It’s going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page.

Review:

You know the feeling you get when you meet a person, or if you’re lucky, a whole group of people that just gets you? That whole, yassss I’ve found MY people feeling?! I experienced it when I found my fellow book bloggers and bookstagrammers and it was the best thing ever, it’s like finding a home. Well, I had that exact warm, fuzzy and safe feeling reading this delightful book! Nina is basically me, if you’re a hardcore bookworm she’s all of us and I absolutely adored every single second of this book.

Clearly I adored Nina as a character, she was so very relatable for me and if I could pick on book character to hang out with for a day, it would be her. Sure, maybe we would just sit quietly and read, but still. But besides her this was chock full of an eccentric cast of supporting characters that made this even more funny and entertaining than it already was. There are also a ton of amazing pop culture references and of course too many hilarious literary references to count, I need to go back and mark my favorite ones, because between the references and the spot on one liners I just know I’ll be wanting to quote this one myself!

Highly recommended as a fantastic summer read, it was just plain fun and exactly the type of book everyone wants to read this time of year.

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in three words: Quirky, Adorable and Wry

Overall rating: 5/5

Thanks to the publisher for my review copy.