giovedì 14 marzo 2019

'Landline' by Rainbow Rowell | Review

Title: Landline
Author: Rainbow Rowell 
Published by: Orion Books 
Pages: 356
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 stars)






This book tells the story of Georgie and Neal, who love each other very much, but maybe that’s not enough because something isn’t right in their marriage. When Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go to Omaha to visit his family for Christmas, because she’s a tv writer and the show she’s been working on for twenty years with her best friend Seth finally has a chance. What she certainly doesn’t expect Neal to do is to take the kids and go back home without her. But that night Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past and maybe that’s a new opportunity to save their marriage.

“I love you”, he said. “I love you more than I hate everything else.”

“Georgie never thought she’d be old enough to talk about life in big decade-long chunks like this. Pretty soon she’d have been with Neal longer than she’d been without him.”

I really liked the plot structure of this book, how it plays on different moments in time. It always come back to Georgie’s present, but we also get glimpses of her past through flashbacks that allow us to better understand every character, and then we get this strange present-past moment whenever Georgie talks on the phone with past-Neal. 

Regardless of her obvious faults in her relationship I’ve found Georgie’s character as highly likeable, she doesn’t really want her marriage to break and she’s very conscious of the things she’s done wrong in her life and like all of us she’s just trying to make things better. And isn’t Neal the perfect husband? I think a tiny part of me fell in love with him too.  

I’ve spent half of this book, or maybe nearly all of it, wishing this thing of calling someone in the past was really possible. But wouldn’t we all? Just to talk to some people that aren’t here anymore at least one last time. I love books that make me think about my life, those books that end up in your hands exactly at the right time, when you need them the most. I’ve had this book in my TBR literally for years and just this past month I actually bought it. It turned out to be the perfect time in my life to read this, one of reflection and confusione and trying to figure life out. It made me think about the choices we make in life and their consequences, and is there anything better that a book can do? 

I absolutely adored every single book written by Rainbow Rowell so far, I’ve read ‘Fangirl’ and ‘Attachments’ before I read ‘Landline’, and I have to say this last one (this isn’t her latest book just the last one I’ve personally read) hasn’t disappointed. If you are on the hunt for a unique and cosy read, that plays on time and focuses on character development and love than this book is most certainly for you. 

Have you read this book yet? If so what did you think? 

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