From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wayward Son, Fangirl, Carry On, and Landline comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about an office romance that blossoms one email at a time....
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.
Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now—reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers—not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.
When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. He can't help being entertained, and captivated, by their stories. But by the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself. What would he even say...?
Cute and… cute. A whole lot of cuteness. Which means the things that bugged me just might highlight my own issues instead of the book’s. Basically, how is Chris needing space to himself a bad thing? The jobless boyfriend that we’re supposed to scorn actually works hard, and is smart and kind and loyal, and by the end of the book he’s the one I’d want to spend time with. His declaration to Beth is close to my ideal declaration, and Lincoln’s would make me run for the hills. (“No air in space”? What does that even mean? And no thanks!)
The happy ending means that two needy people can go be needy together, and Chris (whew) escapes the vortex. Is that not the book I was supposed to read? Oops. In my book, there’s a difference between a crush and real love, and no amount of Tom Hanks speeches can turn one into the other.
But that’s just me. And it’s still cute. Aw, Y2K.
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