The book got a little repetitive, both with plot (basically, bad things keep happening to Thomas) and how chapters kept ending with Thomas falling asleep or passing out in some way. The end is sort of expected because the first book and this one set you up to suspect that things aren't over even when you think they are. That's where some of the monotony comes in. But it's an interesting read that introduces us to new characters and is still a page-turner.

This was terrible. I think it’s entirely possible for an author to write an engaging novel that is told entirely through text. Johnson is not that author. The text messages are too disjointed to understand what’s happening. I understand that there would have to be some reading between the lines and realizing that the characters will be referring to events and conversations that we as readers haven’t witnessed, but so much was left out that I kept wondering if I’d somehow skipped a page or two. I only got 1/3 of the way through the book before giving up, and at that point I still didn’t have a sense of who the characters were, and I hadn’t been made to care about them.

This book reads like it was written 30 years ago in terms of how differences between men and women are portrayed. And that’s only one of its major flaws.