Review: "Hot Text is a fast paced ... read."
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
Jeff Maddox is a software manual editor who doesn't really get out a lot. He hardly dates and he's been through two divorces. However, he cares about what his sister is getting up to because she is trying to straighten her life out. Jeff doesn't like that she is tangled up with a married man and when he sees that man has left his cell phone behind, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He'll contact the wife and get her to keep her hubby home and away from his little sister! Only Jeff didn't bargain on the attraction that he would feel for the Mrs.Passive preschool teacher/artist Karyn James knows that her husband of ten years has been straying for a while, but she just can't seem to summon the emotions to give a hoot. As their anniversary approaches she reaches out to her estranged husband. He doesn't respond, but another man does claiming that her husband had left his phone and he would like to return it to him via Karyn. She agrees to meet Jeff Maddox and believes that he is ordinary like her, but when Jeff contacts her again that night in regards to what she is wearing, Karyn takes a risk and goes for it.Hot Text is a fast paced short read. Karyn and Jeff develop a relationship in the bedroom right off. Because of their abnormal activities they both are changed for the better. Karyn starts standing up for herself more and Jeff decides that getting out around people more isn't so bad. Hot Text did a lot of telling and not a lot of showing. I liked that both characters were good for each other, I just would have preferred more development and showing of things and less telling for such a short read. Hot Text had Jeff awakening things within Karyn for the better, but I didn't like that it jumped forward a year with the progression of their lives. It was hard to get past the quickness in Hot Text in what Jeff and Karyn got involved in given that they didn't know each other either. Hot Text didn't really give me enough growth/change/realization of things in Jeff's life to allow for a HEA for me, but I did believe there would be a HFN for both characters.Vanessa for Joyfully Reviewed