Book Review: It Started With A Text by Jax Calder

Book Blurb

Nick:

Okay, so making a viral video mocking my celebrity crush's pretentious apartment tour isn’t exactly a strategy for finding love.

And when some random guy slides into my DMs claiming to be Anthony Devine—Grammy-winning pop star, LGBTQ+ icon, and owner of cheekbones that should be illegal—I do what any rational person would do. I assume he's a forty-five-year-old catfish living in his mom's basement.

Except we start chatting and somehow it’s the most real conversation I’ve had for ages. One month and approximately five thousand messages later, AntD has become my favorite person to talk to. He sends me Baby Yoda memes, asks about my assignments and actually listens when I rant about my cheating ex. And it's become our standing joke, him insisting he really is Anthony Devine.

Hilarious, right?

My friends say I need to stop catching feelings for a guy whose real name I don't even know. But meeting him would mean risking everything we've built. Stepping out of our perfect digital bubble. Finally finding out who he actually is.

What if he's not who he says he is?

What if he is?

Not Just Texting is a swoony MM novella about finding real connection in the digital age, featuring a broke college student with too many posters on his wall and the one catfish who might actually be the real deal.

Review

It Started With A Text is a novella by Jax Calder and is part of the Queer Ways to Fall in Love Series. I thought that this was such a short sweet and adorable story to read. Anthony Devine-  A Grammy winning Pop -star- connects with Marketing Student Nick Marchesi via DMs, after the latter gently mocks the former in a video that goes viral ! Nick doesn’t quite believe that he is talking to the real Anthony Devine, but the two continue to chat and their connection grows as do their feelings.

I loved the entire premise of this novella and having the two main characters develop their relationship through the medium of messaging was so perfect! I really liked that the story was full of humour, heart and a little heat. Nick and Anthony’s happy ending was so cute and brought a genuine smile to my face! I would definitely recommend reading this book (and the bonus chapter as well if you can).

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4.4/5 stars