Bigfoot and the Librarian by Linda Winstead Jones

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Something in the Water? 

Marnie Somerset’s new job at the Mystic Springs Library seems almost too good to be true. Yes, the small Alabama town is populated with more than its share of odd people, and she did have a flat tire on her way into town and hallucinate Bigfoot crossing the road, which made for less than a stellar start. But the library is fantastic, her new house is charming, and the hot local writer keeps crossing her path. 

In more ways than one. 

Clint Maxwell is drawn to the new librarian, even though he knows getting involved with someone from outside Mystic Springs would be a very bad idea. Marnie’s not a Springer, and she won’t last long in a town awash with magic. Still, when she’s threatened he feels compelled to protect her. Is she meant to be his? Is this the woman he’s been waiting for?

Bigfoot and the Librarian

I wanted to like it so much more!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 🙂🥰😎😄
Narration: 🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Marnie – after dropping her gym-bro boyfriend, she got a new job as a librarian in the small town of Mystic Springs. She didn’t know much about the town, but the job came with a small house, so it seemed a good place to start over. All the pictures she found online of the town and the house where she would live seemed to be blurry, so she didn’t quite know what to expect, but when she saw the house and the library, she was pleasantly surprised.

The Hero: Cliff – He is a Bigfoot shifter and a writer of horror novels who lives in Mystic Springs. His father was also a Bigfoot shifter, though he often just started shifting at random times like when the family was at dinner. His father would just start sprouting hair and took off for a run in the forest. Cliff has complete control of his shifts but still needs to go for runs every so often so his ability to shift didn’t go away. He had a lot of power from controlling his shifts.

The Story: Marnie met Cliff at a bar on the edge of town after she got a flat tire on her way into Mystic Springs. He and the other few customers at the bar weren’t very welcoming so she was wary of her new job. Cliff was attracted to Marnie but knew that she would most likely move away soon as she was not a “Springer”. Non-Springers didn’t tend to stick around as they eventually started to see things they couldn’t explain, not many saw the magic of the town and stayed, keeping what they knew of the place a secret.

After Marnie was given a chilly reception by some of the people in Mystic Springs, she thought she might rethink her new life. Though after seeing, what looked like a Bigfoot outside her house one night, she got curious and did some research on the subject of Bigfoot. This book was hard for me because I really wanted to like it, because I really love these small towns with secret monster type series, but I wasn’t too fond of Marnie. She gets this author/cryptozoologist to come to Mystic Springs because of her Bigfoot sightings right in the middle of her crushing on Cliff and starts romanticizing the new guy as some kind of Mr. Darcy character because of his posh accent. The narration also bugged me quite a bit, and added to my dislike of Marnie.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view and was narrated in solo narration by Loretta Rawlins. She has a southern accent and is more of a reader than a voice actor. You could definitely tell by her unnatural tempo that she was reading, and it bothered me. She also didn’t use any different tone of voice for the male characters.

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