Reviewed by Jeanne
Dedicated New Yorker Rooney
Gao is an artist. She uses the pseudonym
“Red String Girl” for her art because she wants to make a name for herself, not
for the fact that she has a famous mother. The name also reflects her use of string
in her art, a manifestation of the Chinese legend that everyone has a red
string that attaches to their one true love.
For Rooney it means some things are just fated to be.
Enter Jackson Lui, a
senior engineer at NASA, who is in New York City to do a presentation which he
hopes will help earn him a long sought after promotion. The two meet up at a print shop, and then
again at a party. Rooney is beginning to
wonder if it could be fate, but there’s a small problem or two:
Jack doesn’t believe in
fate.
And he lives in
California.
Yes, I have now read
two romances so far this year, which may be some kind of record for me. It’s not that I have anything against love,
but I do tend to bog down in the overwrought drama that many of those books
feature. I get frustrated with the characters because they could usually clear
things up with one conversation but it seems to be more fun to wail and fuss.
That’s not the case
here. Rooney and Jack are two adults.
They’re attracted to each other from the start and have a magical date. They
actually talk about things that matter. I loved (no pun intended) how we got to
know the characters, how they discussed their beliefs and respected one another. I learned a bit about art, about Mars, about
chance, about Chinese folklore, and probability, and found two fictional
characters that I like a lot. I enjoyed
how the two meet up again, and the way they reconnect.
If more romances were
like this one, I’d read more romances.
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