Love Lettering by Kate ClaybornMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
What a clever premise--Meg, a talented calligrapher creates stationery, planners and all the written pieces for weddings. She attempts to find the font and design that reflects the personalities of her clients. When Avery and Reid ( who comes only once to a preprinting conference ) hire her for their wedding invitations etal, Meg is quite taken with the stiff but exceedingly handsome Reid. Several months later, Reid shows up alone at her business with the program from his wedding in hand. He, however, is not wearing a wedding band and appears quite annoyed. He has discovered that Meg has coded the word M-I-S-T-A-K-E into the program and he wants to know how she was aware of the mistake it would have been.
After creating this encoded program, Meg has forsworn any further wedding work and is amazed that Reid even decoded her message. With this awkward and trust breaking incident at the basis of their ensuing involvement, Reid and Meg embark on a journey toward companionship, friendship and, ultimately, love. The twists and turns of this fraught discovery is based on games that the two of them design based not on a love of words but rather on a love of letters and numbers---Reid is a mathematician in Wall Street. How interesting to look at signs and the shape, size and color of the letters that make them up. How interesting to imagine a person or his/her voice and words in a sequence of specific letters with various shadings and colors. Just a unique and fun theme on which to base this not run-of-the - mill rom-com. This is a review of an ARC provided by Goodreads.
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