Ok, my Cannonball Says entry for Bingo might be kind of a cheat, because… let’s be real, I’m enough of a Rowell fangirl that I was gonna buy this with or without a good review from a cannonballer. That said, choosing this book allows me to highlight how clever scootsa1000’s review title is (let’s talk about Seth, baby) as well as to tip my hat to a cannonballer who might love Rainbow Rowell more than I do.
I feel like this might be one of the lesser loved Rowell books, which is surprising to me, because like all of her stories, the characters are treated sympathetically even when they act selfishly. And the struggles in a marriage might not be as cheerful a topic as the impediments to young love as in Fangirl or Eleanor and Park, but still a subject worth exploring. It’s tough reading about Georgie, our protagonist continuously choosing her career over her marriage, and hard reading the passive aggressive behavior her husband displays when frustrated at those choices. But as always, Rowell makes you root for the pair while depicting their flaws realistically. How do you not fall for their marriage? How do you resist the phone with a direct line to the past that gives Georgie the opportunity to remember the good times?
and, like Scootsa1000, I too did a little cheer when
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Georgie travels to Omaha to reunite with her husband.
The three and a half star reviews are wrong. I’m with Scootsa1000.