All of the chapters are short, but the fact Jennifer and Beth’s parts were shown in email form made it such a quick read for me and didn’t take anything away from the story. The chapters are pretty much alternate between Lincoln’s prose and Jennifer and Beth’s emails. Jennifer and Beth were immediately likeable and funny characters. Having the book set in ’99 gave it so many quirks you wouldn’t see today, let alone the whole email concept and Y2K thing itself. Not only am I called Beth, but I was born in 1999! It was weird reading about the year of my birth, but also kind of nostalgic and super interesting. I mean, evidently this book was made for me. Especially when he starts reading the exchanges of best friends Jennifer and Beth, he feels even more uncomfortable when he starts to fall for one of them. They all have soft spots in my heart for very different reasons, but Landline and Attachments do for their quirkiness.Īttachments follows Lincoln, who takes a job where he reads people’s work emails and feels creepy about it. I’ve now read everything major Rainbow Rowell has written, and I don’t have a bad word to say about any of them.
This was my first read for my N.E.W.T.s TBR and I’m so glad it was because it was such a quick and enjoyable read. By the time Lincoln realises just how head-over-heels he is, it’s too late to introduce himself.Īfter 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. And Lincoln, a shy IT guy responsible for monitoring e-mails, spends his hours reading every exchange.Īt first their e-mails offer a welcome diversion, but the more he reads, the more he finds himself falling for one of them. 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. Beth tries to tell.It’s 1999 and the internet is still a novelty. Jennifer believes she is pregnant, but she doesn't want to tell her husband, Mitch. In their emails, Beth and Jennifer discuss their love lives. An email exchange between Jennifer Scribner-Snyder and Beth Fremont, two employees at The Courier, a newspaper in Omaha ensues. Lincoln's chapters are told in third person omniscient past tense, so events in those chapters will be recounted in past tense.Ĭhapter 1 is Wednesday, August 18th 1999. Therefore, the chapter summaries for their correspondence will be written in present tense except for events described in past tense.
In the emails, the two friends speak in the present tense. Beth and Jennifer's chapters are presented as emails. The novel is written in a semi-epistolary way, meaning it belongs to a genre where the narrative is comprised of letters, correspondence, and non-narrative prose. Attachments alternates between different narrative formats.
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