Attachments and other personal stories

Current TBR List: 15
Currently Reading: 5
Books Finished in December: 23

My love for Rainbow Rowell continues!

I finished Attachments, my third Rainbow Rowell book this year, and it was super cute! Don’t get me wrong, its Very problematic, yes capital V not a typo. It still doesn’t stop me from loving it though. Rainbow Rowell just knows how to hit you in your feels. I must read all her books now. Eleanor and Park is still my favorite one though!

In Attachments, Lincoln is awkward and back living with his mom. His weekends are spent playing D&D and mooning over his first love from a decade ago. To shake things up he just signed up for a great paying job as cyber security for a newspaper company. He wanted an easy job where he would have plenty of time to sort out his life, or lack of life. Instead, he gets caught up in reading personal emails, not everyone’s though. Just the ones between Beth and Jennifer. He slowly grows to love her through her inappropriate emails. Then one day the emails start discussing him. Now what does he do?

This is far from a perfect relationship, or even a healthy one, but you root for it all the same. Which brings me to my side rant, why is okay for attractive people, and people that are attracted to each other, to behave in these stalkerish ways and it be deemed acceptable?! 

When I was in college I was in the phone store a lot because I had the worst luck with phones, they literally would be put in my hands to die. I was in the store at least twice a month for an entire semester and the guy there was cute and he flirted with me while I hung out (it was a very long walk back to the dorm). One day I got a text message from him… I had never given him my number outside the “what’s the number on the account”. I immediately looked at my friend and was like “I should be creeped out right?!?! But he is just sooooo cute”. Well, I should have trusted my initial instincts because on the “first date” he was flirting with the waitress and even managed to score her number, well, I scored $50 in sushi so it was a wash in my books. So as I cringed my way through Attachments I knew what the characters were going through. It could be possible and I wanted the happy ending because this was supposed to be a cute contemporary read not horror!

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