The Bookbinder's Secret *DNF*

The Bookbinder's Secret by A. D. Bell *DNF*

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Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.

A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.

Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder.

Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit.

Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian’s world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life.

Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller*, Books About Books, Romance*

The How/Why: Influenced by an IG influencer! When I looked it up on Libby it wasn't labeled as a *thriller or as a romance. Libby has it as HF and Literature. Google has it listed as HF, Mystery, Romance. It wasn't until after I started it and was updating in Goodreads where I saw it is labeled as a thriller. I may have passed because I just ditched a thriller for being too horrifying (Ask for Andrea by Noelle Ihli). 

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I don't rate books that I don't finish, but I will say WHY when I've gone past the 20% mark.

💣💥 📢 Content Warnings? Google says: Vi0lɇncɇ, Physical AbŲsɇ.
I looked it up and it said roꞖꞖery, bɇatɇn, thrɇatenɇd with knivɇs. I can handle that! 
UPDATE: The "roꞖꞖery, bɇatɇn" was not graphic. She was knocked down and her satchel was stolen. She got a cut on her head. I quit before any knife activities so I don't know if that was graphic. 

🌶 Spice? No, good old fashioned forbidden love but no spice. 

💻 Tidbits ~ I quit around the 25% mark. I was bored with it probably because I was having a hard time following/understanding what was going on. I don't know anything about the bookbinding business so I was lost.
I guess I was expecting more about the hidden letters being a treasure hunt to reveal a story, chased by a woman trying to make it in a man's world. 

🎧 Narrator: Olivia Vinall

🎧12.0 hours 🕮 400 pages

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