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A review by lory_enterenchanted
Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
3.0
Enjoyable in the main, although I had some issues. The age gap -- it's just a fact that men mature much slower, and the age gap between 22 year old male and 32 year old female is immense. Plus, he's had a crush on her since he was 15? It's just all a bit weird. He's impossibly perfect, too, aside from having a rare medical issue, which seems to be one of Center's hallmarks.
The problem with romance novels seems to be that the couple has to be attracted to each other, but then you have to keep them apart somehow. It's hard to accomplish the latter in today's hook-up culture. So I often find the reason-for-staying-apart, usually based on misunderstandings and miscommunication, absurd and frustrating. That was the case here.
I also found it strange that the MC NEVER thinks about her job as a first grade teacher. I mean, she does mention it a couple of times, and do a couple of teacher-y things, but she never thinks about the children. Perhaps she is desperate to get away from them - but then I think that would come into her mind at some point. And my experience of being a teacher is that it's not a job you leave behind when you're out of the classroom!
The problem with romance novels seems to be that the couple has to be attracted to each other, but then you have to keep them apart somehow. It's hard to accomplish the latter in today's hook-up culture. So I often find the reason-for-staying-apart, usually based on misunderstandings and miscommunication, absurd and frustrating. That was the case here.
I also found it strange that the MC NEVER thinks about her job as a first grade teacher. I mean, she does mention it a couple of times, and do a couple of teacher-y things, but she never thinks about the children. Perhaps she is desperate to get away from them - but then I think that would come into her mind at some point. And my experience of being a teacher is that it's not a job you leave behind when you're out of the classroom!