Popular Fictional Relationship Novel On Online Romance

By Jessica Taylor


Life today involves physical interactions that are punctuated with extensive internet use. The norm of meeting people physically and forming relationships has been replaced by the internet as the meeting point. This has given rise to the genre of the fictional relationship novel set on the internet. Here are some of the amazing titles that embrace and expound on this idea.

Nick Hornby authored Juliet, Naked. This is a story that begins with Annie criticizing the work of a singer called Crowe Tucker. Tucker happens to be an idol in the eyes of Duncan. Duncan is Annies boyfriend. This becomes a source of conflict and the two breakup. The review prompts Crowe to send an email to Annie. This is the beginning of a relationship between Annie and Crowe.

Rainbow Rowell makes a writing debut with the book Attachments. At work, Lincoln is assigned the duty of reading through emails of his colleagues at work to ensure that they do not cross the boundaries of company policy. In the process, he encounters a conversation between two of her fellow employees interacting in a manner contravening company policy. She does not report them but keeps reading.

Melanie Gideon has authored a book entitled Wife 22. The narrative features a woman in her middle age who has nothing good to show for her marriage. She is enticed to be part of an online survey on marriage. The title is drawn from the tag she is given in the survey. Probing questions from Researcher 101 leave her thinking a lot about the relationship. They are an eye opener.

Super Sad True Love Story acts as a futurist view of a world where people will only be communicating through aparats. These are hand held devices that have caused people to not even speak to each other or read books. The apparatus rate people on such grounds as attractiveness, financial status, etc. Eunice and Lennie have a one night stand over a platform called Global Teen. However, the description given by Eunice to her friend about the experience is totally different.

Richard Yate is the work of Tao Lin. It tells the story of friendship that emerges from Google chat. A boy meets a girl on Google chat but their relationship is devoid of emotions. The author uses this book to make a commentary on how online relationships are devoid of emotional attachment. This has infiltrated into normal life. The book is very controversial and has received a lot of criticism. The comments are usually polemic and hilarious.

Eloves Me, Eloves Me Not is the debut novel of L. A. Johanneson writing career. This is a tale of a woman in her late thirties with everything she ever wanted in life apart from a loving person to come home to. Kayte has tried the conventional dating and failed terribly. She is advised by a friend to try online dating. The journey is very interesting.

Financial Lives of the Poet was authored by Walter Jesse. The story features Matt, a reporter who quits his job and begins a poetry blog. It fails yet he cannot tell his wife, an Ebay fanatical shopper. Matt suspects that the wife is about to run away with a high school boyfriend they reconnected via facebook. He has to do all it takes to salvage his marriage.




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