Review: Many questions, still waiting on answers...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review.Both this book and the first book, Textual Encounters, are very quick reads; they can be read back to back within the span of a lazy afternoon, which is exactly what I did.I was hoping that I would get answers to a lot of the questions I was left with at the end of the first book, but unfortunately, I think this book raises even more questions, while not necessarily answering the ones from the first book.Once again the book is told through the text conversations of two people, only this time it is between Kristine and Jake, and it is Rachel (Jake's ex that we meet in the first book) that is the narrator and the one reading the messages. I seriously was left with so many questions at the end that I'm questioning nearly every characters mental health. I can't figure out if there are multiple personalities present, I KNOW there is some extreme co-dependence in play here, and the way that each character manipulates another in some way is all over the place.While this makes for a lot of great drama, it also makes for a lot of confusion. Again, the lack of a reliable narrator of any sort makes this hard to process, and this time around, we have to wait on the release of the next volume.Again, I think this is a four star read as it certainly will suck you in and keep your attention, but the lack of any type of closure is unsettling. Here's hoping we see the next installment quickly!