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All Wrapped Up with You
After Leda’s boyfriend cheats on her and then dumps her, she resolves to devote all of her attention to her schoolwork. Dating just isn’t worth it. But there’s more to learn in college than just what’s taught in classes – and her charming but aloof classmate Paolo wants them to teach each other.
A complete novelette-length love story: approximately 9,700 words.
A complete novelette-length love story: approximately 9,700 words.
50 pages, ebook
First published December 1, 2015
About the author
Meredith Acker
7 booksA southern transplant to New York, Meredith fell in love with an Italian boy from Long Island, and now she’s stuck here. They live in Brooklyn, where she is shadowed by a faithful and affectionate girl cat. She works in midtown in a big fancy office by day, then comes home and writes stories about other people kissing.
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December 12, 2015
This is what happens when you strip a 100,000-word trope-filled book to its bare essentials: a story that's barely 10,000 words yet still meaty and juicy enough to deliver the feels.
Leda, an art student, stays behind in campus to get caught up with schoolwork. Setting: a cafe, on a break. Enter ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend from stage left. Oh, dear, this is awkward. Nothing worse than small talk with the one who broke your heart, right? (Don't worry. They're not necessarily demonised.) But then from stage right sneaks in the heroic Paolo, he of the fine face (no doubt thanks to his Italian blood, but I'm not complaining) and chaste kiss, with a casual introduction as Leda's friend—and, hey, an exit door and a new romance potential.
They start spending more time with each other. They get intimate. There's a fair amount of heat, but it's totally low-fire stuff and nothing explicit. In fact, . And then their nekkid times get frequent and deep, disconcerting Leda.
The story's a quickie, but it is evenly paced and doesn't feel hurried. One of Leda's inner struggles is about her size, but her insecurities aren't particularly overwhelming. Acker cleverly and satisfyingly shows Leda's progress—both academic and personal—in Leda's self-portrait project. A fitting culmination of both what Paolo has "taught" her (that "drawing advice", ultimately viewing herself from another person's eyes) and what he makes her feel.
All Wrapped Up with You is by no means anything new or groundbreaking; it's just simply a nice story that's just simply done well.
Leda, an art student, stays behind in campus to get caught up with schoolwork. Setting: a cafe, on a break. Enter ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend from stage left. Oh, dear, this is awkward. Nothing worse than small talk with the one who broke your heart, right? (Don't worry. They're not necessarily demonised.) But then from stage right sneaks in the heroic Paolo, he of the fine face (no doubt thanks to his Italian blood, but I'm not complaining) and chaste kiss, with a casual introduction as Leda's friend—and, hey, an exit door and a new romance potential.
They start spending more time with each other. They get intimate. There's a fair amount of heat, but it's totally low-fire stuff and nothing explicit. In fact, . And then their nekkid times get frequent and deep, disconcerting Leda.
“You don’t think we’ll get too used to this?” she asked.
“I think if you’re worried about getting used to it,” he said, running a hand underneath her sweater, “it’s already a little too late.”
The story's a quickie, but it is evenly paced and doesn't feel hurried. One of Leda's inner struggles is about her size, but her insecurities aren't particularly overwhelming. Acker cleverly and satisfyingly shows Leda's progress—both academic and personal—in Leda's self-portrait project. A fitting culmination of both what Paolo has "taught" her (that "drawing advice", ultimately viewing herself from another person's eyes) and what he makes her feel.
All Wrapped Up with You is by no means anything new or groundbreaking; it's just simply a nice story that's just simply done well.
July 20, 2016
This is my own book, so of course I liked it!
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