When Train Guy (tries to) meet Coffee-Spill-Girl
Bewertet mit 4.5 Sternen
The synopsis says: "So begins a not-quite-romance of near misses, true love, and the power of the written word." And that captures it brilliantly. The book is very romantic as such, but since our two protagonists several times nearly miss each other they cannot really start with the romance in 'real life' but have to fall back to communicating via a newspaper (reminded me of "Desperately Seeking Susan", this movie from the 80's when Madonna was still young & cool) containing a section about "Missed Connections".
I loved the storyline, I loved the characters, I especially loved the snappy witty dialogues. And I also found it a very nice reversal of roles that here it is the man who initiates the whole game, who is the driving force into meeting each other and who even consults a Dating Guide. Normally in those chick-Lit books this is all done by the female lead. Yay to equal rights!
The near misses honestly get a bit frustrating after a while, and with that I mean not only for Daniel and Nadia but also for the reader. But that is also kind of the charm of the story, and I can really picture this being made into a movie. It would work really well.