Marie works
in a bookstore and loves to read romance, hoping to live out the passion
experienced by those heroines. She is engaged to Cecil, a “starving artist,”
who is nice but just doesn’t do it for her. Then after a 20 minute eye
appointment, she becomes infatuated with her hunky optician.
The two take
an instant liking to each other, but each thinks the other is involved, which
results in misinterpretations and mixed signals.
Characters
were sweet and the story was nice and simple, even though the ending was a
little too convenient and cliché. Really, the bulk of the story was about them
fantasizing about each other. I mean, how could they dream of a future together
when they hardly even knew each other?
A story
bound by the world of books and fantastic fiction.
“Fiction is
supposed to be about feeling better, about forgetting.” (LOC 1090)
My rating: 4 stars
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