Games
Games
Anna Maria Volkova
my review : ✮✮✮✮
This is the kind of book where you have no idea who the hell to recommend it to. I loved it, but it’s unlike any romance I’ve read, and it’s not for everyone (is anything for everyone?).
Is it romance? Is it literary fiction? It blurs the line brilliantly.
This is a love story that deals with economics, politics, and philosophy alongside very steamy sex.
This story is about Lili Marwan, a brilliant grad student, who meets Aleksandr Petrov, a powerful Wall Street banker two decades older than her, in a bar one hot summer night in NYC.
I understand the Sally Rooney Normal People comparison because it’s smart and a bit dark.
I understand the Fifty Shades comparison because it explores the line between pleasure and pain.
The Ali Hazelwood blurb makes perfect sense, as these leading characters would be roommates with Ali Hazelwood’s heroines (I actually think Lili’s parents’ love story could be written by Ali Hazelwood. You cannot mention a beautiful woman working in a science lab and not pine for Ali to pen that story).
The author does a brilliant job of making the characters’ intellectual debates essentially foreplay. At times, though, I felt a little in over my head with the subject matter. But I almost failed AP Macro, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
This is like if the characters in Problematic Summer Romance had much more baggage.
I actually have a lot more to say about this book, but I have already gone on too long. I honestly have no clue when I’ll stop thinking about these two.
you’ll love this book if you love:
Fifty Shades of Grey
Normal People
Ali Hazelwood
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