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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'd give it 3.5 starts but can't. Fun read with playful dialog between some of the characters that I enjoyed. Light, funny, romance.
I wish the book had more pages with Lincoln and Beth relationship.
This book too longer to read then it should have, but I can’t get much reading done with work.
This book too longer to read then it should have, but I can’t get much reading done with work.
Wow was this boring! Most of what isn't the email exchanges is lincoln's internal thoughts, and tbh it's not interesting. It's weird he reads the emails of these women, and felt like insta-love levels of unrelatable and cringey.
This book is not that old, but WOW were there some dated and uncomfortably problematic things in here about ableism (the r word), assuming someone is gay because of cologne??, etc.
I found this to be the case of Slow Dance, too- this feels like a really dated way characters interact. Mayne it's that Rainbow Rowell is older than me, maybe it's the deeply Midwestern setting and characters but I felt like (despite being older than the characters) these were old style (not a compliment) male and female characters.
I really felt like this was not a good book and i would definitely not recommend it.
This book is not that old, but WOW were there some dated and uncomfortably problematic things in here about ableism (the r word), assuming someone is gay because of cologne??, etc.
I found this to be the case of Slow Dance, too- this feels like a really dated way characters interact. Mayne it's that Rainbow Rowell is older than me, maybe it's the deeply Midwestern setting and characters but I felt like (despite being older than the characters) these were old style (not a compliment) male and female characters.
I really felt like this was not a good book and i would definitely not recommend it.
I really liked this. It was different. The love interests don't really even meet in person until almost the end of the book and you have to accept a lot of moral ambiguity, but I still liked it.
So many feelings for this! What should be a book about a creepy dude reading emails is actually one of the most delightful books I've read in awhile. I loved all the characters and Rainbow Rowell has an amazing ability to bring the swoons when the characters aren't even in the same room or talking to each other. So good.
There's something about Rainbow Rowell's characters and relationships. Her characters are flawed - they make bad decisions, and you're not always sure you're rooting for their romance, but in the end there's that warm feeling that makes you close the book with a smile.
Side Note: it was fun to flash back to Y2K madness for a few hours
Side Note: it was fun to flash back to Y2K madness for a few hours
this confirms that fangirl is the only book rainbow rowell has written that’s actually good. this "romance" was weird and creepy and not at all romantic.
Attachments is a difficult book to rate because there were some parts of it were pretty great but the book suffers from one major flaw. I'll start with the parts that I actually enjoyed, which was that the emails exchanged between Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder were actually pretty entertaining to read. In fact, this format reminds me of Meg Cabot's The Boy series, which are stories that are told in epistolary format (through emails, letters and the such). The emails were cute and gave us a some sense of who Beth and Jennifer were as people.
The other characters were also equally entertaining. I thought that Lincoln's family was funny to read about, especially his older sister who just wants to help him to move out of his slump. I also found the way that Rowell eventually depicted Lincoln's past relationship was quite clever, hooking us by telling us a little bit about their previous relationship before showing how everything fell apart later on. And Lincoln certainly doesn't lack in self-awareness, in that he's aware that the ennui that he feels from that broken relationship is a little pathetic, considering how the break-up wasn't very different from other people's experience.
However, the major flaw with the novel is that I'm not sure that Beth ever came across as anything more than a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, because her main purpose seems to be to give Lincoln a reason to move out of his slump. To move out of his comfort zone and to go out there and try new things. And I'm not sure that I totally buy that he fell so hard for her, given how little he actually knows about her from her emails.
Furthermore, there's definitely an element of stalking going on, which I don't know if it was properly addressed rather than set aside as some unique, charming form of meet-cute. Going into the novel, I was aware that this was the premise, of course. But Beth's reaction seems to be that she was charmed rather than being creeped out, which I think is the more appropriate reaction I believe.
The other characters were also equally entertaining. I thought that Lincoln's family was funny to read about, especially his older sister who just wants to help him to move out of his slump. I also found the way that Rowell eventually depicted Lincoln's past relationship was quite clever, hooking us by telling us a little bit about their previous relationship before showing how everything fell apart later on. And Lincoln certainly doesn't lack in self-awareness, in that he's aware that the ennui that he feels from that broken relationship is a little pathetic, considering how the break-up wasn't very different from other people's experience.
However, the major flaw with the novel is that I'm not sure that Beth ever came across as anything more than a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, because her main purpose seems to be to give Lincoln a reason to move out of his slump. To move out of his comfort zone and to go out there and try new things.
Spoiler
Be it stalking her current boyfriend by heading to the club that he plays at or calling him buff and therefore encouraging him to hit the gym to build up.Furthermore, there's definitely an element of stalking going on, which I don't know if it was properly addressed rather than set aside as some unique, charming form of meet-cute. Going into the novel, I was aware that this was the premise, of course. But Beth's reaction seems to be that she was charmed
