Book Review: Landline

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Rating-4/5 Lily Pads
Edition- Hardcover
Pages-308
Would I recommend it? Yes
No Spoilers!!
I bought this book with my own money




Hey everyone I'm back with a review today! I will be reviewing "Landline" by Rainbow Rowell. This is the third book I've read from Rainbow. I read "Eleanor and Park" didn't like it, but I loved "Fangirl". I want to read her other book, "Attachments." This book was good, really good but I didn't think it was amazing. I liked Fangirl better. Let's get on with the review.

The Plot

Landline is about a 37 year-old woman named Georgie McCool. She is a TV screenwriter and she writes shows with her best friend Seth. It's almost christmas time and her dream for a tv show is becoming true, it's her big break. Unfortunately, her big break is at the same time her and her husband Neal, and her kids plan to go to Omaha, Nebraska for Christmas to visit Neal's family. Georgie decides to stay in LA and work on the show because she doesn't want to miss the big opportunity. So she stays, and Neal becomes mad at her. So now her family is in Omaha and Georgie is alone in LA. She decides to stay with her mom and sister, Heather for a few days. While she's there, she stays in her room. Georgie finds an old phone in her room and decides to use it to call Neal. It turns out the old landline phone, has powers. When Georgie uses it, she goes back in time years ago and talks to the old Neal. So she talks to him everyday and tries to fix her marriage while communicating with him. While she goes through all this, Georgie wonders if her marriage was meant to be, because Neal never seems happy anymore. So in this book Georgie tries to fix her marriage. That's what the book is about.

My Opinion

I really enjoyed this book. The pacing was slow but it was entertaining. Rainbow Rowell is a great author, I don't know how she comes up with unique plots for books. I love that her characters are so realistic, I feel I could relate to them. Georgie wasn't perfect, and neither was Neal. The plot was really unique and I liked reading about marriage even though I can't relate to it because I'm not married. It sort of tells me how to have a good marriage. Let's talk about the characters. I liked Georgie, she was cool and dorky. I thought her job was really cool and I liked her best friend Seth. He was such a good guy and I could tell her really cares about Georgie. I liked her mom and her younger sister, Heather.Her two daughters were adorable. I also loved this book because Georgie's mom has two pugs. Pugs are my favorite dog breed, I love them and one of the pugs in the book was pregnant.  I loved how this book really focused on family, because family is very important to me.I didn't have any problems with this book, well except for one thing. The only thing that bothered me was Neal. I did not like Neal. There were some moments where I liked him, but most of the time I didn't like him. He was mean and he doesn't have much of a personality .He never smiles or laughs and that's not my type of guy. I like that he takes care of the family but overall I just didn't like him.He annoyed me because throughout the whole book he gave Georgie the cold shoulder.I understand that he was mad at her, but it was rude of him to ignore his wife. Georgie called him a million times and every time she called, he avoided her and that really bugged me. I felt so bad for Georgie. I honestly thought she was too good for Neal. That's all I can tell you without spoilers. Yeah, I gave it 4 lily pads because it wasn't amazing but I really enjoyed it. This was a adult novel and I like adult books so it wasn't a problem for me. I think teenagers can read this book because it's not very dirty there aren't any sex scenes but there is swearing, which bothered me because I don't swear at all. I recommend this book to anyone especially if you like reading about marriage. I couldn't relate to this book but that's why I loved it. I read to escape from my life and it was really good. I think this book is worth a buy. That's my review, stay tuned for more. I will be filming a review on my channel soon so bye!