The Little Library

By: Kim Fielding

Narrated by: Andrew McFerrin

Elliott Thompson was once a historian with a promising academic future, but his involvement in a scandal meant a lost job, public shame, and a ruined love life. He took shelter in his rural California hometown, where he teaches online classes, hoards books, and despairs of his future.

Simon Odisho has lost a job as well - to a bullet that sidelined his career in law enforcement. While his shattered knee recovers, he rethinks his job prospects and searches for the courage to come out to his close-knit but conservative extended family.

In an attempt to manage his overflowing book collection, Elliott builds a miniature neighborhood library in his front yard. The project puts him in touch with his neighbors - for better and worse - and introduces him to handsome, charming Simon.

While romance blooms quickly between them, Elliott's not willing to live in the closet, and his best career prospects might take him far away. His books have plenty to tell him about history, but they give him no clues about a future with Simon.

©2018 Kim Fielding (P)2018 Kim Fielding

Funny and witty sweet romance

I really enjoyed this book, it was lighthearted and very funny at times, each character is unique and interesting and the narrator managed to capture their uniqueness extremely well. The narration was fantastic!!!
I loved how Simon and Elliott grew into the relationship with the help of their mutual love for books and reading. Elliott is just such an interesting man, and his internal conflicts and book obsession moments were just hilarious!
There was something very soft about the progression of the story, despite some parts that could have been overly dramatic in another author's hands, it never became a melodrama. I really liked it about this book, it pulls you in stealthily and I finished it with a great sense of contentment.

Sweet romance

I absolutely adored this lovely story, and I've listened to it several times. It never fails to leave me with the warm fuzzies.

The narration is fantastic as well. Overall, a very sweet lighthearted romance.

Enjoyable light romance

Flows along pleasantly with minimal obstacles between the professor and the hot ex-cop, save for the hardly unexpected prejudices of his parents from the Middle East. All the action is quite realistically depicted. The appealing concept of the little library is an inventive twist and the author has the academic world down with great accuracy. Good narrator. Perfect bedtime listening.

Another great one from Kim Fielding!

Kim Fielding is a terrific writer, you can trust that any of her stories are always going to be an amazing journey with well-developed characters and a well-planned plot. This is a very gentle love story about two men who’ve had some struggles in their romantic pasts but are still willing to try.

I love the imagery of the little town bonding over books and the idea of book sharing as a community. (I wish things like that would happen!) While e-books are fantastic that is one major down side to the technology – fewer paper books to share. ☹

There wasn’t anything earth shaking in this, but the love between these guys and their personal growth was sweet and easily captivating.

This is the perfect book for people in the mood for something light, sweet and easy.

Highly recommended!

4 of 5 stars


Audio

Andrew McFerrin does a FANTASTIC job with this! He gives everyone a unique and appropriate voice and is wonderful on the non-dialog emotional scenes as well. He absolutely added to the overall experience and was a joy to listen to!

5 of 5 stars

Overall 4.5 of 5 stars

Real people adulting

I really appreciated this book because the two main characters are very real, trying to figure out their lives after each facing a challenge that has derailed them, and doing so with tremendous grace. As they negotiate this new relationship and fall in love, they act like adults. When they are hurting, they talk to each other. In so much romance, there is manufactured drama that could be so easily resolved by a quick conversation or checking in with each other. These guys don’t do that. They act exactly the way you would expect real live humans to act. It was incredibly refreshing. And I just fell in love with each of them.