Perfect Fifths

I loved reading the Jessica Darling Books I discovered this fall. She was so Dawson Creek with the crazy vocabulary and so over the high school drama while being in the middle of it herself. She over analyzed everything, like gee I don't know, me, and so of course I took a liking to her. Then there was her stupid decision while in college I was turned off by but we are all entitled to free and she is a character that is free to make her own mistakes.

So I read them all:

Sloppy Firsts

Second Helpings

Charmed Thirds

Fourth Comings

And now half way into reading Perfect Fifths. Before the books were all written by Jessica in the first person. This book is different. Its been three years since Jessica and Marcus last spoke. This book is essentially the conversation between the two of them after crashing into each other. Jessica tells Marcus how she's been working with high school kids whom after writing so many first person narratives by this time they have them write about a personal experience in the third person to slightly remove themselves from the pain and write about it with a new perspective, which is also reflected in this book. What was going on in Marcus's head? Well now the readers can hear some of his innermost thoughts. I'm reading right through it and trying to stop some and feel it - that's what I have most enjoyed about reading these stories. Its so first person you feel it. Its all about being sixteen even though she is now twenty five, feeling the moment you are living right now and not letting the world get to you in being all heartless as you get older. So tonight I shall be reading to the end unless I sadly get too tired first and involuntarily crash like I did the other night. A very poorly timed nap that had me missing the gym because they close at 9pm and I woke at 8:30pm. But did manage to work out for an hour last night so its all good. That's right Jessica Darling, even when talking about you I can bring it back to me, yes, me.