[Book Review] Landline

"Landline" by Rainbow Rowell is the kind of the book you want to read if you want some paranormal activity in everyday life. The cover is really cool as well as dull at the same time. The yellow rotary phone amidst the grey background gives you the gloomy interesting touch, at least that's what I thought. At first sight, you may end up with the same conclusion as me that this book is another teenage high school romantic drama but no it's not. 

"Landline" tells the story of Georgie, a TV drama writer, her husband Neal and her best friend Seth. A week before Christmas, Georgie encounters a weird old yellow rotary phone that changes her broken relations and her life. 

This is the first book of Rainbow Rowell that I read and I really liked this. The plot was really predictable after the climax but the writing made it worthwhile. By the end of the last chapter I was excited and anxious as much as Georgie to see her family. The whole yellow rotary landline thing was interesting but I expected some kind of explanation at the end but I didn't get any. Teeny bit disappointed but I decided to mark the rotary landline under paranormal activity and also the whole plot takes place around Christmas. Maybe Rowell wanted it to be a Christmas miracle or something and who am I to question Christmas miracles. Or maybe it was because the novel is a Fiction ;)
The characters were memorable. I can still see Neal's parenthesis dimples. Another thing that I really liked was that the author managed to take away all the things from Georgie when she was looking for something to hold on to her present life. The plot was simple and the writing was easy and compact. Overall it was a good read if you keep your expectations on par.