Attachments - Rainbow Rowell

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Title: Attachments
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 357
Date read: April, 2016

It's 1999 and the internet is still a novelty. At a newspaper office, two colleagues, Beth and Jennifer, e-mail back and forth, discussing their lives in hilarious details, from love troubles to family dramas. And Lincoln, a shy IT guy responsible for monitoring e-mails, spends his hours reading every exchange.

At first their e-mails offer a welcome diversion, but the more he reads, the more he finds himself falling for one of them. By the time Lincoln realises just how head-over-heels he is, it's too late to introduce himself.

After a series of close encounters, Lincoln eventually decides he must follow his heart... and find out if there is such a thing as love before first sight.


Perfect readathon material - I breezed through it in no time at all.

Just as charming and feel-good a novel as I've come to expect from Rainbow Rowell. While it couldn't quite live up to "Fangirl" or "Landline", I still liked it a lot, and really enjoyed the unusual narrative... even if it did take me awhile to figure out that Beth and Jennifer weren't supposed to be the main characters.

I liked Lincoln, and was pleased to see he wasn't quite the helpless person the first few chapters made him out to be; my heart broke with Jennifer and Beth through their trials (their friendship was brilliantly shown without any telling necessary at all); and I mentally cheered when everything worked out in the end.

The only problem is that now I have no more new Rainbow Rowell books to read. I'll have to hope she publishes something else soon :)