Review: Nooooo!!!!!! ;)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
Why is it that almost every book I've read recently has a flippin' CLIFFHANGER ending?!?!?!?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!So this book ends just when you're at the best part. I HATE BOOKS THAT DO THAT! Especially considering that it says the next one doesn't come out til May.I'm thinking that as readers we need to either stop buying books like this (and stop their money-making scheme, muhahaha) or just wait until ALL the books in the series are out and then read them, because this is mean. Especially considering this one seemed novella length to me. By the time I buy the next one (I paid $2.99 for this one) I will have paid more for this series per page then on any book I've read this year. (Yes, I'm cheap, don't judge me)Why rate the book so well then? Because it's really friggin good! That's why. More than 90% of the book is texting conversations between 2 characters. This is a fresh new approach to a book and personally I LOVED it! From the way the book is written to the dialogue between characters is very Clever, New, Original and Witty. Loved it. I barely put the book down once the texting started and even then once I hit 50% I knew there was NO putting it down.at.all.Short synopsis- girl (a med student) gets into a cab in NYC and finds an iPhone on the seat. She sees an intriguing text on it that makes her scroll back through the whole conversation (convo took place over the course of 3 months I think) and that's where we jump in.....  reading Jake and Christine's relationship on the phone the girl found. How they met by "mis-texting" the wrong number, started chatting, that led to meeting, and wah-lah = a book you can't put down.But here's the thing. I read one person's review of it- who just basically said it was crazy good and to read it. So I was assuming it was a sweet love story where a couple meets under weird encounters. I didn't know it was going to be a COMPLETE MIND EFF (Amazon will not let me even PG the F word so I'm editing it to that, lol).OH MY WORD. At one part a good bit in I was thinking "Wait a second.... " and then at 50% I was like "What?!?!" And then at the end I was GASPING OUT LOUD.The only downsides I had with the book are: 1- I couldn't into the med students dialogue. It was the most prose we got really since everything else was text form but some how being her head was kinda choppy and a little uninteresting. (sorry!)2- The texting arrangement..... I would get so lost on who was texting whom. I wish that each text had either "Jake" or "J" or something like that to show us who was talking. Sure you can figure it out but it would flow so much nicer if it was labeled. Just my lame 2 cents though. I'm sure there's some smart reason it's not and I'm just missing it.So all in all I would definitely recommend this book, I'd just wait til May to buy it if you hate cliffhangers. ;)Oh- and I was a little hesitant to buy this based on the sexual nature of the cover (to me it just looks like a sex book) but there were no sex (or sext ;) ) scenes in the book.