I love the bookshelf, however only gave it 4 stars as it took me 4 hours to put together including the un-boxing. I am a late 20's woman, and without help to put this together it was a challenge at times. A lot of small screws and pieces -NOTE! Make sure you have an electric screw driver! there are a ton of screws and I had to hand screw them all in, and they are not "easy". The instructions are only 10 steps, but within each step is about 5-10 steps and nothing is written (it's like IKEA instructions). You definitely have to use your "puzzle" skills to do make sure that within each step, you are completing each "sub step" in the correct order. 
Once put together, it is sturdy and looks great - was just painful (literally!) to put together =)