![]() ![]() I really, really, really dislike it when the author and the heroine can’t be distinguished from one another for any reason, and this was too cutesy and too much reality. The heroine has cats named Willow Tum Tum and Buffy the Mouse Slayer… identical to the names of author Teresa Medeiros’ cats, who are both regular characters in her own tweetstream. I kept trying to read it and I kept running into reasons to stop. Some of them are among my most-favoritest-ever, which is another reason why I kept giving this book another try, over and over and over. ![]() I like Teresa Medeiros’ books, as a rule. The format was as much a part of the developing story as the chat dialogue itself. ![]() ![]() I also have a major soft spot for the section at the back of Dave Barry’s “Dave Barry in Cyberspace,” where he wrote what I presume is a fictional chat encounter that leads to romance-after a woman creates an AOL chat room called “Can Actually Spell.” The romance in chat lines between MsPtato and RayAdverb is one of my favorites, even though it’s jokey and short and deals with infidelity. I liked Meg Cabot’s “The Boy Next Door,” which is largely told via email, even with the weird part where the villain is running down the stairs and the heroine is on her laptop in the stairwell typing that the villain is running down the stairs. I like epistolary novels, and I really like epistolary novels involving technology. ![]()
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