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A review by blurrypetals
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
This is, in my not-so-humble opinion, Rainbow Rowell's best book. It combines her penchant for lovely, looping prose and her talent for writing compelling, romantic situations in the most wonderful fashion. It also doesn't contain any of the weirdness or mediocrity that dragged Fangirl and Carry On down, it's got a slight edge on Attachments, mostly because this is Rainbow's fourth book instead of her debut and this was just a bit more elegant in execution, and it's got a happier ending than Eleanor and Park, so, in my book, that all adds up to this being her best.
One thing I found to be really compelling was the structure of the book. I liked that we didn't get nearly anything in chronological order, and I'm not even talking about the phone calls Georgie ends up making to the past. I liked that information was carefully and lovingly doled out in small bite-sized pieces, that we didn't get a full picture of Georgie and Neal's relationship prior to the beginning of the novel until, well, the end of the novel. I really enjoyed how stories and facts came up as Georgie was reminded of them, as she reflected upon them.
I didn't even know Rebecca Lowman, my favorite narrator until Jorjeana Marie dethroned her, narrated this until I started it, so that was also a treat. This whole book was a treat. I was not expecting to love this, let alone love it as much as I did. Neal and Georgie were true heartstring pullers and I was almost as much of a mess over their relationship by the end as Georgie was because I was very invested very quickly and I stayed invested the whole way through. I loved watching the two of them fall in love with one another because it made me love them, too, and it made me all the more heartbroken that their marriage was in trouble.
This is great, this is what I've wanted from Rainbow ever since I first heard about her writing and I finally got exactly what I wanted, exactly what I didn't expect, and more.
One thing I found to be really compelling was the structure of the book. I liked that we didn't get nearly anything in chronological order, and I'm not even talking about the phone calls Georgie ends up making to the past. I liked that information was carefully and lovingly doled out in small bite-sized pieces, that we didn't get a full picture of Georgie and Neal's relationship prior to the beginning of the novel until, well, the end of the novel. I really enjoyed how stories and facts came up as Georgie was reminded of them, as she reflected upon them.
I didn't even know Rebecca Lowman, my favorite narrator until Jorjeana Marie dethroned her, narrated this until I started it, so that was also a treat. This whole book was a treat. I was not expecting to love this, let alone love it as much as I did. Neal and Georgie were true heartstring pullers and I was almost as much of a mess over their relationship by the end as Georgie was because I was very invested very quickly and I stayed invested the whole way through. I loved watching the two of them fall in love with one another because it made me love them, too, and it made me all the more heartbroken that their marriage was in trouble.
This is great, this is what I've wanted from Rainbow ever since I first heard about her writing and I finally got exactly what I wanted, exactly what I didn't expect, and more.