1/2
$ 13.50
Alex, Approximately
- CHOICE
- BRANCH
#MOU552219
This product is not returnable.Color & Size
Item Description
Monument Books
0%Fulfilment Rate
0Rating
47Followers
Monument Books
0%Fulfilment Rate
0Rating
47Followers
Item Description
- As far as young adult contemporary romances go, Alex, Approximately ticks pretty much all of the right boxes from the get-go; throw in the fact that author Jenn Bennett drew inspiration from the romantic classic film You’ve Got Mail too, and what we’re left with is a very cute and heartwarming novel that, while a little too formulaic, doesn’t actually go too far wrong.When classic movie fan Bailey moves across the country to a small California surfing town to live with her dad (and, as it happens, her online crush and fellow film geek Alex), there’s a part of her that’s hoping for a Hollywood ending – boy meets girl, boy and girl instantly connect, boy and girl ride off into the Pacific Coast sunset. Only Bailey is a lot more cautious than that so she doesn’t actually tell Alex she’s moving to his hometown, despite his invitation to meet him at the annual film festival at the end of the summer. Instead, she decides to try and find him the old-fashioned way, with detective work, when she can fit it in around her new summer job at the local tourist-trap museum. If only that annoyingly attractive museum security guard Porter, who also happens to love classic cinema, wasn’t proving so much of a distraction…So, yes, it’s not hard to see where Alex, Approximately is going and readers spend the majority of the novel waiting for Bailey and Porter to catch up and make the connection for themselves, which can prove to be frustrating. The internal war Bailey wages between her perfectly-crafted fantasy of a relationship with Alex and the messy, exhilarating reality of a relationship with Porter would hold a lot more weight, for example, if we didn’t know they were the same person.In fact, the whole online, chat room friends meet-up hook falls by the wayside pretty quickly as the novel becomes less about Bailey finding Alex and more about Bailey and Porter’s slow-growing romance, with Alex becoming more of an afterthought, and something to be brought out as a complication when it suits. Still, when the online chat conversations do turn up, they’re the kind of typical communication comedy of errors you’d expect and it’s a shame we don’t see more of it through the novel.
Recommend product
DOWNLOAD L192 APP
@2010, 2025 L192.COM