"The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you." 
 "Attachments" would make such a nice movie. It would be a typical 90's rom-com, that I would creep under the covers and watch over and over again on a rainy day with a cup of hot chocolate. It would be my go-to movie if I had a stomach-ache or if I came down with the flu. It would cheer me up all over again, and I would never expect anything else from it. 
 In fact, reading "Attachments" almost felt like watching a movie. The 90's atmosphere was so well-excecuted that I almost felt like I had time-traveled to the time-period I grew up in. Everything oozed with that certain nostalgia from a time where e-mails were new and dangerous. I loved the atmosphere, I loved the pop-culture references and I loved the undiminished fluffiness vibrating through these pages. This book made me happy and it made me laugh. 
 The main characters in this book are very witty and genuinely funny. I adored the intelligent conversations between Beth and Jennifer and while Lincoln was completely miserable, he was also extremely adorable. Rowell really has a talent for creating people, not only characters. It is her strongest force as a writer. 
 "There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening." 
 A part of me feel like this book deserves five stars. Because it was so, so, so, so lovely. It was the right book, read at the right time. And while it was not revolutionizing, it was simply nice. It was cozy and it made me happy. 
 But I still haven't come to terms with the ending. While it (almost) is a rule in this particular genre, that everything comes together very neatly in the end, this was too neat. I always knew what the ending would be and I would have accepted it, if it hadn't gone by so fast. (view spoiler)[ Beth was so angry at Lincoln (with good reason). And in the flash of an eye, after a sweet sentence or two, she simply accepted his apology and they made up. Honestly, this guy read her private e-mails, he knew her secrets and he completely invaded her privacy. While he did it with the best intentions and the funny narrative made it kind of cute, it was still wrong. Beth seemed like too strong a person to simply throw her principles away and forgive him just like that. (hide spoiler)] 
 Ultimately, I have decided on 3.5 stars. While I definitely liked "Attachments" much better than "Eleanor & Park", it had some problems with its pace and its ending. But then again, I can easily imagine reading this again some time, whenever I'm the need for something sweet, light and heartwarming. It wasn't a perfect book, but it was good enough to make me smile and to make me laugh - which probably was the point, after all. 
 ""I'd know you in the dark," he said. "From a thousand miles away. There's nothing you could become that I haven't already fallen in love with.""