First thoughts after reading Attachments :Well this was unexpected.

I guess going into this book I thought that this would be such a cute YA novel and a good (and well deserved) break from all the sci-fi/fantasy of the Lunar Chronicles series. I was ready to go back to nostalgia when old bulky computers were still alive and when the internet was just a young and newly evolving thing. And most of all I was here for the romance!

I was SO HYPED coming into this book thinking “I WOULD LOVE THIS!” and who wouldn’t with a blurb that is basically saying what you are about to read is a “internet security officer” who falls in love with a girl through creepily reading her emails between her friends?

Okay so maybe that’s just me

But I was clapping while reading this book like: “YES LINCOLN!!!” and “WOOP WOOP!! THE ROMANCE TRAIN HAS LEFT STATION!” But… that happened around 150 pages in… the pages before THAT was extremely slow to my utter disappointment.

I think it was that I was shipping them so hard that I wanted them to be together badly and it was a shame I had to wait a heck of a lot of pages for that to flourish into a blossom of love. I must say that those pages were just there and not really an essential thing to fuel the story onwards in my opinion. But I must say the ending was SO WORTH IT (but I’m not going to spoil it because I am not a monster)

There was another issue I should probably address with this book and that is the question of whether this is Young Adult or not. This novel in particular was more aimed towards New Adults than YA in the sense that it was about jobs, working, romance and pregnancy all subjects that although may concern or be relevant to today’s youths, were written more for older readers. I didn’t realise this until I was around 60 pages in though but I still think readers, old or young would enjoy it. I’m still giving a 3 Star review simply because of the pacing.

ACTUAL RATING: 3 STARS