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A review by denizt
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
2.0
So many missed opportunities in a single book to write a genuinely interesting story. Why does Rowell do this? "Hey, come take a peek at this topic worth exploring. I won't explore it though! Just teasing. (I don't have the proper social awareness to do it justice anyways - see Eleanor & Park.)" Here's a list of some plot points she could have expanded upon:
-A woman exploring her desire to be childfree, and the implications for her marriage
-An overbearing mother holding her adult son emotionally hostage
-How Y2K was ridiculous (only half jk - she built this up for the first half of the book just to skip the actual event and never mention it again)
The first half was actually pretty decent, it's about this depressed IT guy reading two women's emails half-heartedly (because it's his job), there are all these little plot details that have the potential to blossom into something more. So I read on. The second half though - WTF. It got more and more unbelievable all the way until the end. I kind of expected the story to become a horror one, because it certainly didn't read like a romance book. I mean, does this sound like romance: Huge brawny guy reads woman's personal emails without consent and learns about lots of private details about her life, convinces himself he's in love with her, almost approaches her in her workplace to kiss her without consent (a.k.a. sexually assault her), and fantasizes she will be his girlfriend after this. This is exactly how the Netflix show 'You' goes - but it's honest about being a thriller/murderer story.
While I was reading the last 25%, I tried to will the book into having the characters go their separate ways, because how wonderful it would have been for our IT guy to realize he was being serial murderer-y with all these thoughts. But no. The ending is so absurd that I read it in disgust - what a complete YIKES of a book.
And the best part is - there isn't a single ATTACHMENT in any of the emails the two women send each other.
-A woman exploring her desire to be childfree, and the implications for her marriage
-An overbearing mother holding her adult son emotionally hostage
-How Y2K was ridiculous (only half jk - she built this up for the first half of the book just to skip the actual event and never mention it again)
The first half was actually pretty decent, it's about this depressed IT guy reading two women's emails half-heartedly (because it's his job), there are all these little plot details that have the potential to blossom into something more. So I read on. The second half though - WTF. It got more and more unbelievable all the way until the end. I kind of expected the story to become a horror one, because it certainly didn't read like a romance book. I mean, does this sound like romance: Huge brawny guy reads woman's personal emails without consent and learns about lots of private details about her life, convinces himself he's in love with her, almost approaches her in her workplace to kiss her without consent (a.k.a. sexually assault her), and fantasizes she will be his girlfriend after this. This is exactly how the Netflix show 'You' goes - but it's honest about being a thriller/murderer story.
While I was reading the last 25%, I tried to will the book into having the characters go their separate ways, because how wonderful it would have been for our IT guy to realize he was being serial murderer-y with all these thoughts. But no. The ending is so absurd that I read it in disgust - what a complete YIKES of a book.
And the best part is - there isn't a single ATTACHMENT in any of the emails the two women send each other.