Feed My Reads recommended in 2022 - day 19

Feed My Reads recommended in 2022 and we have reached day 19 and we now bring you tEXt Me: A Brief Encounter With A Nokia 3310 by Kit Derrick.  This is a really well written book that works with how it tells the story and is a bit different from a lot of the other reads out there.  It was my first encounter of work by Kit Derrick but I now have his other works too.

It isn’t really an affair if it’s all via a mobile phone, is it?

Tiffany is married to a good and faithful man, but daydreams about the carefree days of her single life, the thrill of her first love, and the passion that seems to have faded. A chance encounter with old flame Martin, and the possibilities her new mobile phone offers now mean that she can enjoy feeling young and desired again, and it isn’t really cheating if you’re just texting; not really.

With the new technology of the Nokia 3310, Tiff finds thrilling new opportunities for secret conversations and harmless flirtation, all from the comfort of her own home, although in an age before the advent of emojis and smartphones, all she has are punctuation marks to hint at unspoken meanings via crude :-D smiley faces, or sometimes other, more… suggestive keystrokes.

Tiffany still loves her husband Nick, and she’d never consider leaving him. Certainly not for the one-time love of her life, the man that broke her heart once before. This is just an innocent(ish) distraction. It could never become anything else, could it?

tEXt me was inspired by the movie Brief Encounter, but is set in an era of simple modern technology, and slightly dubious morals.

Review:

For those who grew up as mobile phones became more popular and remember what it was like when text messages cost you and sending them was all about monitoring what you said to keep costs down this book is a perfect read.  This is a story which looks at Tiffany and her married life which is going through a slightly tougher time when an old flame comes back into her life but can a Nokia 3310 save her marriage or will it just lead to things being worse and eventually being ruined?

This is a great read and one which I really did love reading and would recommend to those who remember the days of the Nokia 3310 and like a romance book.  The small markdown is that towards the end I began to feel like it was a little slower but understand why this was the case.  I also felt that we could have seen some further info on Tiffany and her standard day to see how the phone was impacting her life.

I do really think this is a great book and the small markdown I know to be personal taste and take on things but this is an author who I know I will be checking out more work from.