The Bookish Bandit Book Review

The Bookish Bandit is a faith-filled dual point-of-view romcom by Erica Dansereau and Britt Howard. Charlie is a small-town girl arriving in NYC. I won’t say how she meets Andrew, so you can be surprised. It’s a perfect setup for comedy but it is never too much and is nicely balanced out with more serious topics and faith.

I love the way faith is interwoven in a meaningful way — not just mentions of the characters praying or going to church, but some in-depth conversations that made me ponder things of God. I also enjoyed the characters sharing the hard parts of their lives and that they both had flaws but worked on them throughout the story. 

The romance in the story was sweet and tender and I liked that they both had to face their issues before they could get their HEA. 

It was a fun and touching story that pulled me along like fall leaves on the sidewalk, straight through winter, into spring, and beyond. But you can read the story to see for yourself. 

This is the book description the authors give:

“Steal my heart, not my pages.”

Aspiring author Charlie Blaire never expected to stumble across her own novel at her favorite bookstore. Except this novel isn’t hers. Published under someone else’s name, the book she wrote to cope with the loss of her missionary parents is already topping charts.

Irate, confused, and determined to regain the rights to her book, Charlie leaves her idyllic life in the countryside of Vermont to set things straight in The Big Apple. When she crashes into a charming stranger who offers to help, her faith in humanity and God’s handiwork is restored. But when secrets unravel and the final pages have been turned, what’s too good to be true may turn a blossoming love story into a star-crossed tragedy.

Andrew Ketner has it all: charm, good looks, a sizable inheritance, and an almost-guaranteed future at the helm of one of New York City’s most prestigious publishing houses. While life looks perfect from the outside, living in the shadow of an overbearing father while reeling from the faith-crushing weight of personal loss has left him feeling like he’s hardly living at all.

When he stumbles across a discarded manuscript he is convinced will be an instant success, it sparks an ember of hope he thought was long extinguished. The world looks brighter until he finds himself thrown into an impossible situation. Will he protect his family’s legacy or end up falling in love with the woman whose novel they’ve unwittingly plagiarized?

You can purchase The Bookish Bandit on Amazon.

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