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Emily Henry

出版社

Berkley

出版时间

2022-05-01

ISBN

9780593334836

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
用户评论
首先要说的,Julia Whelan是我最爱的有声书朗读者,这一次在她的声音中听到了角色的眼泪。故事在姐妹情深与爱恋纠结之间交错展开,文学作品中家庭/爱情与事业的冲突并非少见,家人挽救爱情的情节也往往是最佳结局。本书的独特之处是三个酷爱书本的人物,在一次度假中找到生活安放和心灵归宿。“Sometimes even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you. ” ——这句书中的原话完美地描述了人物的感受和我听书的体会。作者描写心理活动的笔法细腻,但有时略感堆砌过多。相当不错的夏季休闲读物。
Not good
过于刻意……
这两年的夏天都愿意读一本让很人放松的 Emily Henry 的Romance. 不拿严肃文学的期待值来看言情小说,就不难发现她成功并不偶然。Romance 这个市场就是买家市场,不管是从语言、故事、还有人物立体维度,甚至一些不经意让人留下印象的语句,Henry平衡得挺好的。
前半本书充满了类似“The words break apart like alphabet soup”的金句,但后半本书突然被姐妹情怀拖累了。看到一半大家的心理预期应该都是happy ending,所以结局太好猜了……一开始的感情写得比较有张力,但后来就变成了男主的彩虹屁。。(自省一下我的内心其实是anti-soulmate)
被书名骗了。很无聊的言情小说。精彩程度不及随便一篇网文。
就算没有“书”也能成立的小言,推进一如既往的慢…
(不明白为啥能排到2022 goodreads romance #1)缘分天注定下的帅哥美女小甜文。只是套了一个出版文学行业的背景,把两个人的对话变得更书面气些 … 但整个故事不够convincing,Nora下乡爱上Charlie勉强可以接受,那Charlie到底是为什么不可自拔地付出所有成全Nora的人生呢…
Maybe this is why people take trips, for that feeling of your real life liquefying around you, like nothing you do will tug on any other strand of your carefully built world.
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