More like 3.5 stars. At first I didn't buy the style of email writing that the two friends engaged in...but then again, they worked at a newspaper, so maybe they would eventually homogenize their styles to suit that of the paper's? Then I kind of got sucked in...slowly and silently... I rather wish the author didn't describe the IT guy's looks to Harrison Ford and the Brawny Paper Towel guy....it feels like an older person's tastes. =/ But the portrayal of the IT guy's love for his ex-girfriend, and then for the newspaper girl, was so heartfelt and so elegant in its sadness/yearning....rarely have I seen endless love written so delicately and truthfully....the skeptic in me wonders, can that kind of love exist? Can that kind of love be genuine? Yet when I read the author's words, I want it to be true, for at least someone out there. 
 An interesting love story that is as much about growing up and becoming your own person as it is about unexpected romance.