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sharshell's review
4.0
**I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.**
Dani lets people walk all over her. She has a big heart and hates to hurt other people's feelings. When she catches her boyfriend not only cheating but right after he proposed. She vows to change. With the help of her best friend Andie, who is Dani's polar opposite and some tequila she decides to text him how she feels. Unfortunately, the messages never make it to her ex.
With the help of Andie and Ram can she learn to say no and put herself first?
Text 2 Lovers was a fun read. I loved the back and forth between Dani and Ram.
Dani lets people walk all over her. She has a big heart and hates to hurt other people's feelings. When she catches her boyfriend not only cheating but right after he proposed. She vows to change. With the help of her best friend Andie, who is Dani's polar opposite and some tequila she decides to text him how she feels. Unfortunately, the messages never make it to her ex.
With the help of Andie and Ram can she learn to say no and put herself first?
Text 2 Lovers was a fun read. I loved the back and forth between Dani and Ram.
geekxgirl's review
1.0
This book was in short simply an OK read. It started out good. Entertaining but by about 30% or so things really became more clear and got worse as the book progressed. The blurb was so interesting too! Such a huge disappointment. [spoilers and ranting ahead]
I wasn't really feeling the heroine Dani aka Danielle. She was supposedly this altogether too nice human being who was quite the pushover and doormat because of said abundance of kindness. It was an endearing characteristic but it didn't quite add up to a likeable heroine. She was meek, shy, had little confidence, no backbone and was too naive. The author tried to make her stronger as the book progressed. I guess we were supposed to go on her journey to growing a damn backbone but I didn't like her either way.
Our hero Ram (I know, such a ridiculous sounding name) aka short for Ramsey! Ah ha, so the name was short for something! Yes, that is something that WAS surprising since the author didn't drop that nugget of knowledge on us until well past the 50% mark. Anyway, yeah so we have our hero Ram. Which by all accounts seemed a great guy from the beginning but definitely struggling with finding his feet after a bad firing from his previous job working at the same advertising firm with his older brother, Roman. There were many things about his plight I found myself relating to as a web and graphic designer, on top of the fact our hero suffered from depression. This for me was a little bit of a surprise. Apparently Ram had dealt with depression since his father passed away from cancer ten years before, and since he'd been fired it had been acting up and causing him insomnia. All these things I felt were very real, especially since I have been in those exact shoes that were described for Ram with his depression because of the death of a family member. So did it pull at my heartstrings a little bit? Yes.
But see, the thing about Ram? He went from a pretty good sounding dude, and then as Dani and him continued to text and talk things began to change, or maybe reveal themselves. Suddenly Ram felt like he was this possessive and almost obsessive guy. The possessiveness I can handle, and it was mostly still an attractive trait for him. That bit wasn't written poorly. However, the obsessive thing became a little weird. Even when they met and got together forreal he felt and even told Dani he was obsessed with her, which sure, I can understand how that could be cute if your super hot boyfriend whom you're really into told you that. But the problem here is it all lead to the fact that apparently Ram had become dependent on Dani for his happiness, even before they met in real life and began their relationship in truth.
I totally get that her sudden appearance in his life definitely lightened his world up and gave him something positive to focus on. She distracted him from his depressive thoughts and made him laugh. All things I TOTALLY understand. It's just that it felt a little bit unhealthy to me the more I kept reading. Especially so when the big disruption happened and Dani, taking a page from her best friend Andie's playbook, reacted spectacularly dramatic about it and ended things with him. Because guess what happened after that? He got depressed again (although it never truly goes away) and wasn't eating or showering and again, not sleeping. Dani of course refused to speak to him, and BFF Andie was so helpfully keeping her phone and responding to anything he texted to Dani with asshole replies. Thus leading to Roman bringing in their younger sister Reagan to try to pull him back out of the darkness.
==PAUSE==
Side note here, it also felt like that the author used Ram's depression as a device. Maybe I'm sensitive to the subject since I suffer from it, but it really did feel that way. Especially when he seemed pretty okay and happy most of the book until Dani broke up with him, then we're shown this ugly side of how much he placed his happiness in the hands of another person. It was pretty annoying if I'm honest. None of it was shown in a healthy light. Didn't help that the depression was like a aside most of the book since Dani didn't even find out about it from Ram but from his mother. SIGH
==PAUSE==
And guess what? All it takes is a drunken phone call that Dani apparently answered from him without saying anything in return other than a "sob" (although this happened from Ram's POV and was never acknowledged from Dani's) and his baby sister talking to her. Then Dani decides to FINALLY talk to him about why she threw a tantrum (long story about him "lying" which was more by omission that she never asked and he didn't want to throw it out there because he was embarrassed sort of thing. Big neon sign in the SHE DOESN'T TRUST HIM DEPARTMENT. Could've just, gee, I don't know! TALKED TO HIM AND HAD HIM EXPLAIN!?) and broke up with him. And low and behold she just goes to his apartment, gets him off the floor, puts him to bed and they hold each other while he finally explains what caused her to freak out and suddenly everything is just fine and dandy because Dani came back to him and he realized he hadn't lost his freaking smile. And he could sleep again. LOL
Honestly, people! These two just became ridiculous (I'm using that word a lot in this review) as the book continued. Dani was 25 and he was supposedly 30, and I say supposedly because the way he spoke/acted sometimes came off college-aged.
And another flaw in the story was HOW THE HELL did Ram afford to take her on those dates? Or buy the plane tickets he mentioned in his thoughts for a trip some place she loved (can't remember) ???? He wasn't making much money or at all and mentioned early on in the book how his brother Roman was covering his half of the rent for the house they shared. NO SENSE.
And last but not least we had to deal with Dani's best friend, Andie aka Andrea. Andie was ridiculous. And I mean that in the WORST way. First impression of Andie had me laughing and thinking this woman is fantastically bold and doesn't give a flying fuck at all and it was entertaining. At first. As the story goes on we see obviously see Andie a ton more throughout and truth be told it's easy to realize this character we so enjoyed at the beginning was quite the immature woman with some serious issues on how to treat another human being. There was seriously so much wrong with how she treated the Ram's older brother Roman. That in and of itself, having Andie and Roman get together was a total cliche and uncreative in my opinion.
Roman actually seemed like the most rational and sensible character by the end of the book. Even after seeing all the crap he chose to deal with by chasing after Andie. But Andie was an absolute PIECE OF WORK. I'm not kidding when I say that woman had ISSUES. And when I say she was an asshole, I mean that wholeheartedly. Not "that girl was a bitch," no way, buddy. I mean it when I say asshole. Bitch was too tame a word for her. She was a volatile human being who treated others like shit and thought she had the right to physically put her hands on someone for angering her or doing what she thought was a wrong to her. The fact Roman kept coming back to her was astounding to me.
And by the end of the book we were forced to be in Andie's POV for the next to last chapter, then Roman's in the epilogue because their book is next in this supposed series. That ruined it for me. Keep the epilogue POV's to the main characters of the story I just read, please!
The only up side of finishing this book was the insults Andie and Roman traded back and forth the few times they hung out with Dani and Ram. Most entertaining thing in the whole book.
I wasn't really feeling the heroine Dani aka Danielle. She was supposedly this altogether too nice human being who was quite the pushover and doormat because of said abundance of kindness. It was an endearing characteristic but it didn't quite add up to a likeable heroine. She was meek, shy, had little confidence, no backbone and was too naive. The author tried to make her stronger as the book progressed. I guess we were supposed to go on her journey to growing a damn backbone but I didn't like her either way.
Our hero Ram (I know, such a ridiculous sounding name) aka short for Ramsey! Ah ha, so the name was short for something! Yes, that is something that WAS surprising since the author didn't drop that nugget of knowledge on us until well past the 50% mark. Anyway, yeah so we have our hero Ram. Which by all accounts seemed a great guy from the beginning but definitely struggling with finding his feet after a bad firing from his previous job working at the same advertising firm with his older brother, Roman. There were many things about his plight I found myself relating to as a web and graphic designer, on top of the fact our hero suffered from depression. This for me was a little bit of a surprise. Apparently Ram had dealt with depression since his father passed away from cancer ten years before, and since he'd been fired it had been acting up and causing him insomnia. All these things I felt were very real, especially since I have been in those exact shoes that were described for Ram with his depression because of the death of a family member. So did it pull at my heartstrings a little bit? Yes.
But see, the thing about Ram? He went from a pretty good sounding dude, and then as Dani and him continued to text and talk things began to change, or maybe reveal themselves. Suddenly Ram felt like he was this possessive and almost obsessive guy. The possessiveness I can handle, and it was mostly still an attractive trait for him. That bit wasn't written poorly. However, the obsessive thing became a little weird. Even when they met and got together forreal he felt and even told Dani he was obsessed with her, which sure, I can understand how that could be cute if your super hot boyfriend whom you're really into told you that. But the problem here is it all lead to the fact that apparently Ram had become dependent on Dani for his happiness, even before they met in real life and began their relationship in truth.
I totally get that her sudden appearance in his life definitely lightened his world up and gave him something positive to focus on. She distracted him from his depressive thoughts and made him laugh. All things I TOTALLY understand. It's just that it felt a little bit unhealthy to me the more I kept reading. Especially so when the big disruption happened and Dani, taking a page from her best friend Andie's playbook, reacted spectacularly dramatic about it and ended things with him. Because guess what happened after that? He got depressed again (although it never truly goes away) and wasn't eating or showering and again, not sleeping. Dani of course refused to speak to him, and BFF Andie was so helpfully keeping her phone and responding to anything he texted to Dani with asshole replies. Thus leading to Roman bringing in their younger sister Reagan to try to pull him back out of the darkness.
==PAUSE==
Side note here, it also felt like that the author used Ram's depression as a device. Maybe I'm sensitive to the subject since I suffer from it, but it really did feel that way. Especially when he seemed pretty okay and happy most of the book until Dani broke up with him, then we're shown this ugly side of how much he placed his happiness in the hands of another person. It was pretty annoying if I'm honest. None of it was shown in a healthy light. Didn't help that the depression was like a aside most of the book since Dani didn't even find out about it from Ram but from his mother. SIGH
==PAUSE==
And guess what? All it takes is a drunken phone call that Dani apparently answered from him without saying anything in return other than a "sob" (although this happened from Ram's POV and was never acknowledged from Dani's) and his baby sister talking to her. Then Dani decides to FINALLY talk to him about why she threw a tantrum (long story about him "lying" which was more by omission that she never asked and he didn't want to throw it out there because he was embarrassed sort of thing. Big neon sign in the SHE DOESN'T TRUST HIM DEPARTMENT. Could've just, gee, I don't know! TALKED TO HIM AND HAD HIM EXPLAIN!?) and broke up with him. And low and behold she just goes to his apartment, gets him off the floor, puts him to bed and they hold each other while he finally explains what caused her to freak out and suddenly everything is just fine and dandy because Dani came back to him and he realized he hadn't lost his freaking smile. And he could sleep again. LOL
Honestly, people! These two just became ridiculous (I'm using that word a lot in this review) as the book continued. Dani was 25 and he was supposedly 30, and I say supposedly because the way he spoke/acted sometimes came off college-aged.
And another flaw in the story was HOW THE HELL did Ram afford to take her on those dates? Or buy the plane tickets he mentioned in his thoughts for a trip some place she loved (can't remember) ???? He wasn't making much money or at all and mentioned early on in the book how his brother Roman was covering his half of the rent for the house they shared. NO SENSE.
And last but not least we had to deal with Dani's best friend, Andie aka Andrea. Andie was ridiculous. And I mean that in the WORST way. First impression of Andie had me laughing and thinking this woman is fantastically bold and doesn't give a flying fuck at all and it was entertaining. At first. As the story goes on we see obviously see Andie a ton more throughout and truth be told it's easy to realize this character we so enjoyed at the beginning was quite the immature woman with some serious issues on how to treat another human being. There was seriously so much wrong with how she treated the Ram's older brother Roman. That in and of itself, having Andie and Roman get together was a total cliche and uncreative in my opinion.
Roman actually seemed like the most rational and sensible character by the end of the book. Even after seeing all the crap he chose to deal with by chasing after Andie. But Andie was an absolute PIECE OF WORK. I'm not kidding when I say that woman had ISSUES. And when I say she was an asshole, I mean that wholeheartedly. Not "that girl was a bitch," no way, buddy. I mean it when I say asshole. Bitch was too tame a word for her. She was a volatile human being who treated others like shit and thought she had the right to physically put her hands on someone for angering her or doing what she thought was a wrong to her. The fact Roman kept coming back to her was astounding to me.
And by the end of the book we were forced to be in Andie's POV for the next to last chapter, then Roman's in the epilogue because their book is next in this supposed series. That ruined it for me. Keep the epilogue POV's to the main characters of the story I just read, please!
The only up side of finishing this book was the insults Andie and Roman traded back and forth the few times they hung out with Dani and Ram. Most entertaining thing in the whole book.
booklovershangout's review
4.0
This story was sexy, sweet and funny. Overall, it was absolutely adorable and I loved it. I only took one star off because I did feel it was a little rushed in the end, but I loved the story. I loved the characters and it definitely made me laugh, swoon and get frustrated at the dramatic parts. I think the combination of K. Webster and J.D. Hollyfield make a great duo and I hope they will continue to write together because I absolutely cannot wait to read more from them.
bookmaniacforever's review
4.0
This first collaboration between K. Webster and J.D. Hollyfield is incredible. They created an exciting and amusing story with pleasant characters. From the first lines, the tone of the story was set and I was hooked on Text 2 Lovers.
A hateful text message sent to the wrong number brings Dani and Ram into contact. What starts as a mistake, soon turns into an easy friendship. They both find something they need in this new relationship and can’t get enough of this exchange of texts. These messages are so comic and sensual that I couldn’t wait for them to meet face to face. Even from across their phone screen, the connection between them is very palpable.
The sexy moments are seriously extremely hot, like combustible! Dani and Ram are also very well supported by Andie and Roman with their endless antics. I enjoyed every interaction between this crew of characters.
My 4 stars rating comes for the fact that I found some parts of the story were maybe a little too forced and exaggerated. However, this is definitely a sexy, sweet, and funny read that charmed me until the last page.
"We'll get on. So weel, in fact, that I can guarantee you that the moment we actually meet in the flesh, I'll have my tongue down your throat within the first ten minutes. Ans you'll be begging for much more than that."
A hateful text message sent to the wrong number brings Dani and Ram into contact. What starts as a mistake, soon turns into an easy friendship. They both find something they need in this new relationship and can’t get enough of this exchange of texts. These messages are so comic and sensual that I couldn’t wait for them to meet face to face. Even from across their phone screen, the connection between them is very palpable.
The sexy moments are seriously extremely hot, like combustible! Dani and Ram are also very well supported by Andie and Roman with their endless antics. I enjoyed every interaction between this crew of characters.
"Now for one truth. Ever since I met you, I've never felt so alive. So eager to make something of myself. To be better. To be somebody you want to keep in your life for a very long time."
My 4 stars rating comes for the fact that I found some parts of the story were maybe a little too forced and exaggerated. However, this is definitely a sexy, sweet, and funny read that charmed me until the last page.
readingvan's review
2.0
2*.
I feel like this story had such potential, and I ended up skipping through most of it. It was lacklustre, the writing felt like that of a 12 year old, and the humour was non-existent. I felt like it was crazy insta-love, and was extremely disappointed. :(
I feel like this story had such potential, and I ended up skipping through most of it. It was lacklustre, the writing felt like that of a 12 year old, and the humour was non-existent. I felt like it was crazy insta-love, and was extremely disappointed. :(
lindseydomokur's review
4.0
This series is super cute. I read book 2 first and I’m glad I came back to get Ram and Danis story. I love the idea of knowing your soulmate as soon as you see them. I really loved the whole wrong number texting back and forth aspect. I like how there is no holds barred when you don’t have to see someone face to face. It lets you be so much more bold and dani needs that desperately. Ram just needed some good in his life. He found his happiness in Dani. He just needed her to make him smile. I loved how cute they were. I absolutely loved Andi and Roman’s relationship and do wish I would have read them in order now. These two were hilarious.
lindseydomokur's review against another edition
4.0
This series is super cute. I read book 2 first and I’m glad I came back to get Ram and Danis story. I love the idea of knowing your soulmate as soon as you see them. I really loved the whole wrong number texting back and forth aspect. I like how there is no holds barred when you don’t have to see someone face to face. It lets you be so much more bold and dani needs that desperately. Ram just needed some good in his life. He found his happiness in Dani. He just needed her to make him smile. I loved how cute they were. I absolutely loved Andi and Roman’s relationship and do wish I would have read them in order now. These two were hilarious.
kerithesmutslut's review against another edition
3.0
This book started out great. I loved Ram, and Dani was cute. Who I didn’t love was Dani’s best Friend Andie. The constant hitting of Rams brother and being over the top was not a good time. She honestly ruined the entire book for me and I’m really sad about it. Seeing as how the next book is about her I doubt I’ll read it.
vlccjdv's review against another edition
4.0
Adorable
Kristy and Jessica write so well together! I went through all the emotions with the characters, and I can’t wait for book 2!
Kristy and Jessica write so well together! I went through all the emotions with the characters, and I can’t wait for book 2!