Attachments - Rainbow Rowell

3 stars

In Attachments, we meet Lincoln, a guy who has just moved back to his mother’s house and is working at a publisher reading the employees’ emails. Kind of creepy, if you ask me. Because I liked him, I will say that, in his defense, he didn’t know that’s what he was hired for.  However, this is year Y2K, and everyone is panicking, hence paying someone to read and flag “inappropriate” emails. And that’s where Beth and Jennifer come in. These two friends send each other HI-LA-RIOUS emails. Through them, we start to learn who they are and what’s happening in their lives.

Maybe if the emails hadn’t been as fun as they were, I would have been more creep-ied out by Lincoln’s behavior. You see, he’s as captivated as we are with this correspondence, and, instead of flagging them, he continues reading their email. As it was, I couldn’t help but encourage his behavior if it got me to know more about these two. Problem is, Lincoln is falling in love with one of them, and, for obvious reasons, he can’t just go over and say “Hi, I’m the guy who reads your email. Do you want to go out for coffee?”

This was a really light, easy, fun book, and one I really enjoyed. My only complaint is the way the ending was handled. It wasn’t truly rushed, but it didn’t seem realistic. At least, not to me.

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