![]() Readers will spot familiar time-travel tropes long before Anna does. ![]() Inconsistency in the fantasy is a weakness, with Miriam’s abilities and the bookstore’s shape-shifting not being integrated into the whole. That night, she’s befriended by two teens and makes discoveries she hopes can reboot her parents’ marriage. Noticing Anna’s moonstone ring, a stranger tells her moonstones signify a fresh start. ![]() Anna explores the seaside and marvels at the comet and meteors reappearing in the night sky after 28 years. Suddenly, Miriam and a dazed Anna head to the family cottage in Rockport, Massachusetts, that Miriam’s inherited. Meanwhile, her dad’s focused on his new tattoo business. Despite not being a bookworm, Anna loves the store it’s her second home. Like Miriam’s mystical ability to recommend the one book that will change customers’ lives, the bookstore changes its size and offerings. On her 14th birthday, her mother, Miriam, announces she’s selling the unusual bookstore she can no longer afford to run. ![]() Last year, Anna Bell got her first period, was dumped by her best friend, and experienced her parents’ divorce. A (literally) magical New England summer is the catalyst for reshaping a conflicted Los Angeles teen’s worldview. ![]()
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