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A review by karrama
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
3.0
Landline is the story of a woman writing for a TV show who gets the opportunity to write the pilot of her dreams with her college friend/crush over the winter holidays. Her already unhappy husband and children head off in one direction and our heroine, Georgie, stays with this dream job and still-slightly-intriguing friend. The name comes from Georgie's cell phone acting up and she begins to use the landline, an old rotary phone that serves as the medium for her continued communications with her family.
I love reading Rainbow Rowell's writing, but I didn't gel with this one. I couldn't catch on with the characters emotions, though the motivations were clear. I wanted to like it so much, but just couldn't. It's a solid Goodreads 2⋆ book. I read it all the way through, but I didn't really "Like" it as a three star would have been. Partly, I admit that I don't like reading stories about husbands and wives fighting, and partly the mechanism was too on the nose for me. This book was solidly OK. All in all, I'm looking forward to Rainbow Rowell's 2015 release regardless.
I love reading Rainbow Rowell's writing, but I didn't gel with this one. I couldn't catch on with the characters emotions, though the motivations were clear. I wanted to like it so much, but just couldn't. It's a solid Goodreads 2⋆ book. I read it all the way through, but I didn't really "Like" it as a three star would have been. Partly, I admit that I don't like reading stories about husbands and wives fighting, and partly the mechanism was too on the nose for me. This book was solidly OK. All in all, I'm looking forward to Rainbow Rowell's 2015 release regardless.