(Book) Hit Reply by Rocki St. Claire
It took me a while to get into this one. The first 50 pages were really hard for me. Usually the email/diary format is fun for me, but I guess I just have a lot going on right now.
Anyway… it ended up being a great book. At the core of it is two women who’s friendship grows, even though they live in different locations. They keep in touch through emails and instant messages. They end up emailing and IMing with past loves – interesting because this is how today’s world works. Everyone has email, it’s how most people communicate these days.
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From Booklist
Written in the time-honored epistolary style but with a modern twist, St. Claire’s entertaining tale introduces three women and the men who love them (or not) through e-mail messages. Amber is in advertising, and she is facing her 10-year high-school reunion. She puts her information on an Internet classmate finder and is soon in touch with the bad boy she has never forgotten. He is totally not what she is looking for, but as his e-mails get steamier, she reconsiders her options. Stephanie is a stay-at-home mom who’s terribly lonely and worried that her husband is having an affair. Amber gives her e-mail to a former coworker Stephanie almost slept with, and their relationship rekindles online. Julie is a divorced empty nester now working as Amber’s assistant, and she, too, decides to use the computer to look up an old flame. It’s amazing how well the cyber format delivers the story and how provocatively St. Claire raises such searching questions as “Is a cyber romance cheating?” Maria Hatton
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