Saturday, 8 March 2014

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

The one liners in this book.
Like, seriously...
Beth is a genius.


I really like the idea of this book, that you can fall in love with someone by just reading their personal emails; which sounds creepy, but honestly, Lincoln is such a sweetheart, he's not like that....

The whole plot of this book is really interesting because: there's no love triangles, the girl isn't totally obsessed over the guy, there's actually proper friendship, couple struggles, and all the drama about moving on and out. I know that sounds weird, but it's actually really good, it's realistic instead of something that sounds all silly and you really have to stretch the imagination to understand. With this, you don't have to imagine, you can see exactly how the characters end up in their predicaments. 

Also, I really liked the characters, each of them had their own little cute quirks and I really loved that, instead of seeing the same old characters repeated over and over again in some novels. There was a real mix, I mean Beth and Jennifer were almost complete opposites but that was nice to see, because a lot of best friends are like that; and then there's Lincoln who I kinda just want to protect from the world (despite the fact he's a massive hunk).

And the humour in this was brilliant, it would just kinda sneak up on you in these brilliant one-liners and would leave you smiling and laughing, and a lot of it was in the form of teasing which was great; not many characters do teasing that well these days, but Beth and Jennifer do.

Overall, I actually loved this book, it was so much fun to read and invest myself in all the characters (including Justin and Dena who are adorable together, and it was nice to see them not meet in the stereotypical way). Attachments was a nice change from the kind of books I read and I just loved it so much.

Rating: 4/5 cookies
Age: YA

That seemed like a really short review (sorry), any recommendations on what to buy and read next? 

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