Review: These characters are killing me
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2014
I am just going to jump in on this one with both feet.  I told you in my first review that Katie is slightly lacking in a moral compass.  She uses the fact that she has this iPhone on which Jake is still trying to contact Christine to set up a meeting.  She pretends to be Christine, sends a text saying she will meet Jake, and then when Christine mysteriously doesn’t show up, she swoops in to save Jake.I loved this book as much as I loved the first, but man, this one was like watching a train wreck.  At this point none of our characters are people I could respect, including Jake man.  Why?  I loved Jake.  Jake has been going back and forth between Rachel and Christine this whole time and now he loves Katie.Yet Katie has Christine’s iPhone still so she can see that he is also texting Christine still.  She likes to bring this up on random, trying to force him to admit that he is still trying to contact Christine and then Katie punishes him by not speaking to him forever, because what she is doing is so much better.Katie gives Rachel (Jake’s ex-fiance) a phone with all of Jake and Katie’s text messages going back and forth while Rachel is laying in the hospital, having just miscarried Jake’s baby.  (Remember Rachel left Jake to marry another man and she is pregnant and miscarrying his baby.)Seriously, you cannot turn away.I can’t decide if Jake is a “keep my options open” player or if he honestly thinks that he has these feelings for all of the women?I don’t know.The ending.Oh the ending.I cannot wait to get my hands on Textual Encounters 3 because this one was left with a huge cliffhanger that was a bit crazy.Set in the same format of mostly text messages, I thought Textual Encounters 2 was a great book.  A wee bit crazy.  Still loved it.