![]() ![]() The letters give shape to the simmering romance at the novel’s heart, swirling around Meg and Reid until they assemble into a script L-O-V-E with tear-jerking potential. ![]() Her exquisite prose brings to life her words in the most electric, compelling sense where readers can practically see them leaping off the page. Clayborn writes so compelling of these letters, describing their idiosyncratic shape and shading in the most vivid of ways. Meg views the world through the hand-crafted letters that give her life purpose, words unfurling in her mind as she ponders a problem or shares a kiss. But before long, Meg is hanging out with Reid, taking walks and playing letter-based games around New York City that serves to chip away at her creative block and put them on course for a delicious slow-burn romance. It follows Meg Mackworth, a professional hand-letterer/designer whose star is on the rise when an old client, Reid, shows up demanding to know how she knew his marriage would fail (and had the gall to include a code intimating as much in his wedding program). ![]() That’s precisely what Kate Clayborn has done with her much larger collection of letters in Love Lettering, artfully assembling letters, words, and paragraphs into a novel of breathtaking beauty. ![]() Review: Lettering, that is calligraphy, hand-lettering, and its ilk, can stop you in your tracks when done well – a beautiful work of art that breathes vivacity into a collection of previous lifeless letters, bestowing them with a unique personality. ![]()
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