** spoiler alert ** 
 I've gotten tons of people recommending that I read Rowell's YA novels, but I'm ashamed to say that I just couldn't make myself do it. Even after I heard that she wrote Fangirl during NaNoWriMo, I just wasn't feeling these super popular books. (I'm not a book hipster, honest!) Then this adult book came through the library and it caught my interest. I figured that it was a good compromise, I'd try out Rowell's writing without joining the masses of readers fangirling over Fangirl. 
 I am so glad I picked this book up. The premise reminded me of The Future of Us (Jay Asher), where the characters get Facebook updates on their futures a good 20 years before they happen. Except instead of Georgie (our protagonist) getting a glimpse into the future, she has a phone that calls back to her husband before he was her husband. 
 I loved how the flashbacks integrated so smoothly into the present day, and didn't get confusing even as Georgie compared past Neal to future Neal and you're learning about him before and after this phone call. The one exception being when their daughter Alice is born, the flashback seemed to come out of left field, and at the time I thought perhaps that Georgie was at that moment unmaking her past. It was a bit jarring, but other than that, it was fairly seamless. 
 Rainbow Rowell has made beautiful characters that are easy to relate to, in a life that seems to mirror in many ways my own. I fell a little in love with Neal myself, loving how he laughs when he's happy, not when he thinks somethings funny, how he loves his little girls, how he gives up so much of himself for his wife. I loved Heather and Seth and Georgie's mom... all of the characters to me stood on their own, and seemed to have purpose. 
 I suppose now I'll have to break down and pick up Fangirl.