Review: collection of email conversations; only read 75%
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2013
I found this as a free ebook on Amazon and was intrigued about romance being found on eBay of all places! Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed. This book is not a story, but rather a copy/paste transcript of the emails exchanged between the author and her new beau. To be honest, I didn't view this as a "romance" but rather the author herself comes off as a bit of a pest. She buys event tickets from an eBay seller and he seems to be polite about the following exchange, she seems to press on a bit and emails and text messages him after the event and he continues the correspondence. It seemed like she was more interested than he was in pursuing anything more and although it was pretty innocent, his responses read like maybe he was hoping to wrap up the conversation once and for all, but she continued to contact him.I only got about 3/4 through the book before I put it away. The emails were pretty boring at times and although I'm sure it's fun for the author to recollect on these exchanges, it doesn't appeal to a broader audience. I think I would have preferred more formatting (it's literally a copy/paste, so you see the email addresses and time stamps, etc. for each exchange) and maybe a story version of this encounter, although I think it would boil down to only a few paragraphs: we exchanged emails, we met in person, etc.