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A review by irregularrogue
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
1.0
May this type of love never find me.
This is not a romance. With some very slight tweeking it could be the start of a Criminal Minds episode. Honestly, near the back half of the book I thought that the characters were going to get their shit together and realize how creepy they were being and this book could end on a high note. Nope. It leaned in and embraced the creepy.
Our main POV character is Lincoln who is your basic caricature of a nerd. Meaning they 'play D&D' because these nerd characters are always written by people who have never had any of these interests themselves and get all their information for 'nerds' from media. Media from like the 90s and early 2000s. But don't worry guys he's a nerd but he's a super hot nerd. Like this book can't stop talking about how HUGE he is. Which took me long enough to realize they weren't talking about him just being a fat guy. They were meaning he's like built like a shit brick house and is basically Paul Bunyan and the Brawny guy. He's hot.
He's also a terrible D&D player. Any normal group would have tossed him out. He shows up game nights on a whim. Or will go weeks and months without showing up at all. As an aside to authors D&D isn't the end all be all of nerdiness and being socially awkward. I would actually reason you have to be pretty socially adept to play a cooperative story telling game. People weren't made fun of in high school and college simply because they were into D&D. They were made fun of because some of them refused to shower and then also used it to excuse their shitty personalities. People didn't dislike you because you played Magic the Gathering they disliked you because you were a twat.
Anyway....spoilers to follow.
Lincoln works as the IT security guy for a newspaper. Basically his job is to check for flagged emails and I guess Internet activity and send warnings to the employees as needed. He hates it and feels like he's invading people's privacy. Which fair enough but again this is company e-mail and they know the e-mails are being monitored so it's on them for sending deeply personal stuff through work e-mail. He also makes it creepy by deciding he likes reading the ones between Beth and Jennifer and never sends them a warning.
He falls in love with Beth via these e-mails. In spite of knowing that Beth has a boyfriend of nine years. He wanders through her department and creeps through the cubicles trying to find hers. He looks through her pictures there and pines over her.
Beth herself is really no better. She has a boyfriend of nine years who just won't commit. Which I guess the book wants us to dislike him for but she's at fault here too. She seems aware he doesn't want to get married even though that's something she herself wants. She probably should have dumped him seven or eight years ago instead of waiting around for nearly a decade hoping she can change his mind. That's his biggest crime though. Not wanting to get married. I was waiting for him to cheat or something but really it's Beth that basically emotionally cheats on him. She catches a glimpse of HUGE Brawny man Lincoln and keeps referring to him as her cute guy. Stalks him at a movie theater. Tries to follow his car to see where he lives. Tells all this to her friend Jennifer in her work e-mail.
And does this turn Lincoln off? No. He prints out the e-mail where she's gushing about how hot she thinks he is and keeps it in his wallet.
There was a turning point. Where I thought maybe it was this terrible because then they were both going to turn their lives around. It seemed close to that. Lincoln finally cracks and quit his job. Though he leaves Beth a note admitting what he did as far as creeping over her e-mails. His breaking point being that after Beth breaks up with her boyfriend she decides to go on a date with some guy she met at a theater.
We're left to think that she's going to move on with this new guy and hopefully get what she wants out of life. We're left to think that Lincoln is finally going to get over his obsession about a girl he was essentially stalking and start healthy relationships. Wrong. In the last forty or so pages these two morons run into each other in a movie theater and just randomly start making out with each other and then live happily ever after.
Gross.
This is not a romance. With some very slight tweeking it could be the start of a Criminal Minds episode. Honestly, near the back half of the book I thought that the characters were going to get their shit together and realize how creepy they were being and this book could end on a high note. Nope. It leaned in and embraced the creepy.
Our main POV character is Lincoln who is your basic caricature of a nerd. Meaning they 'play D&D' because these nerd characters are always written by people who have never had any of these interests themselves and get all their information for 'nerds' from media. Media from like the 90s and early 2000s. But don't worry guys he's a nerd but he's a super hot nerd. Like this book can't stop talking about how HUGE he is. Which took me long enough to realize they weren't talking about him just being a fat guy. They were meaning he's like built like a shit brick house and is basically Paul Bunyan and the Brawny guy. He's hot.
He's also a terrible D&D player. Any normal group would have tossed him out. He shows up game nights on a whim. Or will go weeks and months without showing up at all. As an aside to authors D&D isn't the end all be all of nerdiness and being socially awkward. I would actually reason you have to be pretty socially adept to play a cooperative story telling game. People weren't made fun of in high school and college simply because they were into D&D. They were made fun of because some of them refused to shower and then also used it to excuse their shitty personalities. People didn't dislike you because you played Magic the Gathering they disliked you because you were a twat.
Anyway....spoilers to follow.
Lincoln works as the IT security guy for a newspaper. Basically his job is to check for flagged emails and I guess Internet activity and send warnings to the employees as needed. He hates it and feels like he's invading people's privacy. Which fair enough but again this is company e-mail and they know the e-mails are being monitored so it's on them for sending deeply personal stuff through work e-mail. He also makes it creepy by deciding he likes reading the ones between Beth and Jennifer and never sends them a warning.
He falls in love with Beth via these e-mails. In spite of knowing that Beth has a boyfriend of nine years. He wanders through her department and creeps through the cubicles trying to find hers. He looks through her pictures there and pines over her.
Beth herself is really no better. She has a boyfriend of nine years who just won't commit. Which I guess the book wants us to dislike him for but she's at fault here too. She seems aware he doesn't want to get married even though that's something she herself wants. She probably should have dumped him seven or eight years ago instead of waiting around for nearly a decade hoping she can change his mind. That's his biggest crime though. Not wanting to get married. I was waiting for him to cheat or something but really it's Beth that basically emotionally cheats on him. She catches a glimpse of HUGE Brawny man Lincoln and keeps referring to him as her cute guy. Stalks him at a movie theater. Tries to follow his car to see where he lives. Tells all this to her friend Jennifer in her work e-mail.
And does this turn Lincoln off? No. He prints out the e-mail where she's gushing about how hot she thinks he is and keeps it in his wallet.
There was a turning point. Where I thought maybe it was this terrible because then they were both going to turn their lives around. It seemed close to that. Lincoln finally cracks and quit his job. Though he leaves Beth a note admitting what he did as far as creeping over her e-mails. His breaking point being that after Beth breaks up with her boyfriend she decides to go on a date with some guy she met at a theater.
We're left to think that she's going to move on with this new guy and hopefully get what she wants out of life. We're left to think that Lincoln is finally going to get over his obsession about a girl he was essentially stalking and start healthy relationships. Wrong. In the last forty or so pages these two morons run into each other in a movie theater and just randomly start making out with each other and then live happily ever after.
Gross.