I’m a complete sucker for romance and everything even remotely like it. I had seen the movie “Love, Rosie” long before I read, or in fact heard (since it was an audiobook), this book and I can honestly say that even though it's a perfectly good movie and that I enjoyed it immensely, the book is miles and miles above it.
I LOVED the book. “Where the rainbows end” is possibly one of the best romance books I've read so far. Besides, the fact that the story of Alex and Rosie is written through letters, emails and postcards just make it even better. Because it not only makes it a different way of telling a story, but it shows you the way they wrote about what happened to them, the way they showed and they appeared to the outside of their world. It's a very different perspective when an author shows the characters inside and out, you know how they feel, what they know, what they hide, and what they want. If you tell the story has an outsider that can only show you what the actual characters, as independent individuals, have chosen to show the world outside of themselves, and who they have chosen to share it with, it gives you a more realistic and a closer approach from the book to our own experiences.
I LOVED the book. “Where the rainbows end” is possibly one of the best romance books I've read so far. Besides, the fact that the story of Alex and Rosie is written through letters, emails and postcards just make it even better. Because it not only makes it a different way of telling a story, but it shows you the way they wrote about what happened to them, the way they showed and they appeared to the outside of their world. It's a very different perspective when an author shows the characters inside and out, you know how they feel, what they know, what they hide, and what they want. If you tell the story has an outsider that can only show you what the actual characters, as independent individuals, have chosen to show the world outside of themselves, and who they have chosen to share it with, it gives you a more realistic and a closer approach from the book to our own experiences.
Apart from all of that, I love books and authors that find different paths to tell their story. Like Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events Box: The Complete Wreck when he uses lots of pages to repeat just one word or suddenly leave blank pages in the middle of a chapter. Or also, like in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close where you find messy letters all over the page and a sequence of pages showing a man falling.
,I find it way harder and way easier for a writer to use alternative forms of telling its story. On one way, it's easier because you can use more than just words to explain yourself. But you can also find yourself using resources that may be awesome but that force you to be more clever in order to frame and package your thoughts, now that you don't have the full freedom of describing paragraphs.
Overall, I´m obviously checking out more of Cecelia Ahern´s books and I´ve gotten quite obsessed with the millions of different editions all her books have.
Love, Rosie