The Lifestyle
看到卡通封面就别抱太大期望...
这本是讲”伴侣置换“的，想象一下，每周抽一天，带着你家那口子去fancy街区的某个隐秘的club,以旧换新，解锁一整晚新奇床上体验，带着美好回忆和新增长的知识点给平淡的生活续上火，再挺一个星期，又迎来那个神秘激动的日子...
不心动吗？
如果是好奇这种生活方式，可以翻翻这本，咱也不知道是作者想象力丰富还是确实有实操经验，相关的细节描写（环境、心理、床上运动...）应有尽有...
败笔就在于这个女主我实在是不喜欢。一个律所合伙人，顶着个傻白甜脑袋。老公出轨后第一反应是绝对不能离婚？不仅诉诸于自己舒适区之外的“伴侣置换”体验，还对老公出轨对象尽力提携，整个人就差把girls help girls的女权slogan镶在脑门上了...
这本书开头引了一句《艾玛》里的句子:"The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments."
当时看到我其实就犹豫要不要继续...艾玛那个角色我就不喜欢，从小衣食无忧的特权阶级大小姐，自以为是地觉得周遭一切都在她掌握中，甚至先入为主地去搅和别人的感情、姻缘，却连身边真正爱自己的人都看不到，古早傻白甜本甜。但因为她是简奥斯汀的人物，你总能找出点忍耐心分给她...
可是同样的特质放到这本书里的女主身上，你就觉得她矫情！！且不真实...那个天命真爱，长得帅、人聪明、床上激情澎湃、床下温柔细心，人家女主就生觉得这人放荡不羁爱自由和自己人生规划不符，硬分开了，选了一个看似标标准准循规蹈矩的同行律师，不痛不痒地过了12年直到丈夫出轨加偶遇前任，才开始顿悟心之所向hmmm
而且你能看出来作者其实是想表达“伴侣置换”这种生活方式直接间接地影响了包括女主和她几个朋友在内的人生选择，但几段故事的设定都有些过于模式化，像是不接地气的国产剧。所谓地转变来得也很突然，好像是写着写着作者看了一眼进度就决定是时候搞个转折了.....越读越套路，最后甚至还要安排女主和真爱为了一点小破事儿闹个矛盾再和好，看得我怀疑作者在凑章节.....
轻阅读推荐吧，以及猎奇推荐？几段肉肉戏写得还成，尺度不大但有氛围就还不戳，三星推荐？
摘抄：
1. She wanted to be her most authentic, messiest self for the man who’d always given that to her in return（总会有个人让你觉得在他面前可以无所顾忌地疯闹、冒险、乱糟糟）
2.When their bodies were spent, they lay beside each other on the bare mattress, the bedding having fallen to the floor. Her hand rested on his stomach, his draped across her leg, their chests wrung out and panting. The city was alive below; they were alive inside. Breathless, but alive.（事后状态啧啧可以的...）
3.The lifestyle helped everyone differently. For Felix, it had been a catalyst. For Ari, a wake-up call. For Norah, a sexual liberation.（强行归纳总结，命题作文一样，太倒胃口了./）
4.And named plaintiffs were supposed to be adequate representatives of all the other plaintiffs in the class, the ones who didn’t go to court but would get money from a settlement. But if the named plaintiffs were cousins, they had a unique set of facts that didn’t apply to everyone. Georgina would easily win a motion to oppose this case as a class action, so instead of hundreds of plaintiffs, there would be two, and instead of tens of millions in damages, the figure would be small.（小知识点:如何oppose一个集体诉讼...）
5.Under the cover of their pedestrian interaction, they looked at each other, and the room stilled. Some amount of time passed, but she couldn’t say how long. Eventually, as if someone had turned up the volume, the soundtrack of a hundred people having dinner returned, and she forced her eyes away with the difficulty of hauling a tree right out of the ground.*很多当代小说都有这个特点，文字有电影画面感...）
6.Her life was a beautiful glass ornament hanging by a thread, and somewhere scissors waited.（完美生活的不安感？请先给我个完美生活...）
