“Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.” – Attachments
What a cute and quirky novel, a chick-lit written from a male perspective that didn’t seem trite or overdone. The reader is introduced to Lincoln, a tank of a man who is still suffering from a breakup that has severely impacted his life. Despite his numerous degrees, he ends up taking an entry level job as an email monitor for a newspaper company, his job to send out warnings if emails violate the company policy. It is there that we are introduced to the two female coworkers, Jennifer and Beth, and it is there that we fall in love with them. And, as you will see, Lincoln does too.
Rainbow Rowell’s ability to construct a female relationship is, honestly, like a tall glass of water on a hot day. I greatly enjoyed reading about two women who seem to love and respect each other, and, while the BFF relationship is not completely perfect and sing song, it is what I believe to be about as true to a real life BFF scenario than many other books out there.
I gave this book 3.5/5 stars instead of the 4-4.5 stars I felt it deserved as I was reading it because of one pretty big issue I had with it. The characters were so real and relatable that I had a hard time believing the ending. While Beth starts to fall for Lincoln after surreptitious glances and a kinda stalkerish tendency to follow him home, Lincoln falls in love with her mind through the emails he reads between Beth and Jennifer. And, up until 93% of the book was read, these two characters had not even met yet, although the last 7% has them falling in love for each other and admitting their feelings… which I found to be a very rushed ending. While I don’t doubt that they were meant to get together and stay together, to go from practically strangers to admitting pretty serious feelings in the span of only a few pages seemed a little too unbelievable for my tastes.
Although this book has its flaws, I highly recommend you check it out and the other books by Rainbow Rowell. I know I will be.
Happy Reading!
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