Technically, You Started It

So the biggest reason for my recent hiatus was that I was having trouble reading. If I can't read, I can't review! And every time I tried to read a book, I fell asleep. I just couldn't pay attention to pages of text. I knew, however, that this book had a demisexual protagonist, and I thought that might be enough to keep my attention. I opened the book, and found that the entire thing was written in text message format with speech bubbles, instead of giant blocks of text. Which was EXACTLY what I needed to hold my interest!

This is a precious book, told entirely via text messages between Haley, a demisexual girl, and Martin, a bisexual boy. Which, hi, that's my life? Most of the bisexual men I've been reading lately have been in M/M relationships, so it's nice to see a bisexual boy in a relationship with a girl. AND that they address the viewpoint of many people towards bi boys - that they'll cheat. (That's a biphobic attitude that is aimed at bi people of all genders, but it seems especially prevalent from women towards bi men.)

I love both of these characters; I love that they bring up that things can be so much easier to say via text than face-to-face. I love the far-reaching, random conversations the two have, and the in-jokes they create.

You'd think a romance would be hard to tell without description - only text is similar to only dialogue. But Johnson manages, and does it superbly.

This was the perfect book to break my reading slump, and I love it so much.

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