Review: Your jaw will hit the floor
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
You have to read the 1st Textual Encounters before this one. In fact, I would recommend (re-)reading it right before you read this one. Because it's been a while since I read it and though I thought I remembered it well, I ended up getting a little confused.What I love about this book:- Now Jake's texts are marked when they're from him. It makes it SO SO SO much easier to read. Flows beautifully. That was a great improvement.- I can't get enough of the texting back and forth. This is a great format for a book. Usually my favorite part of a book is all the dialogue. So of course I love this. Plus it makes it so that the books *show* you what's happening instead of just telling you.- This book is from Rachel's perspective. I liked hers way more than Katie's in the 1st book. I felt the writing improved.- This story is smart. Really smart. The author has a lot of great stuff inside these books that made my jaw drop. Just when you feel like you know what's happening... you don't. And I feel like every detail is accounted for and means something. Meaning... as I read I'm paying to attention to every detail about that text. The time. The date. The clues given within them. I feel like The 3rd book will blow us away, and I want to be ready for it. ;)What I didn't love about this book:- What we've learned about the characters. I don't like any of them. At all. Not even a little bit. IMO, NONE of them have any redeeming qualities. Katie almost had me there at the end, but she was such a biddy to Jake the whole time... I just couldn't like her. But most of all I hate Jake. He's so cheesy. And creepy. And an conniving A-hole. I have no idea what any of these women see in him. Besides his apparent mad skillz in bed.  So unless Jake falls off the earth in the 3rd book, I'm not sure I'll like it?? In fact, I'm not sure I want to read it.After reading the peek into book 3 I'm completely turned off. I just don't care about any of them and don't care how it turns out. But I think I am most definitely in the minority there! I'm guessing most people would read it and be DYING to get their hands on the 3rd book. So don't let me turn you off from it!