I started reading the Jessica Darling series when I was in high school. I found Sloppy Firsts in a bookstore that was going out of business and thought it would be good. It turned out to be amazing. Over the years I read the sequels. Fourth Comings couldn't have been released at a better time. I feel like I've grown up with Jessica. She's now the same age as me and going through a lot of the same stuff I've faced recently. I just hate that I'm already done with the book. I hope there will be more books in the series. ( )

I'm having a hard time reading this one :( Jessica is really annoying in it. I don't like how she's writing to Marcus and even though I thought her character was refreshing in the first book, by this point she really comes off like she's better than everybody and I'm starting to hate her a little!

UPDATE:

I'm FINALLY finished!! Whew it was a hard one for me to get through! I have definitely hit the 'Jessica Darling' wall. The first two books were completely awesome, the third one was just ok, and this fourth one?? I would like nothing better than to line my trash bin with it (but its a library book, so I can't)... wait THANK GOD it's a library book and I didn't spend money on this!!!

Ok now that that's out, here's what I really thought about the book-
When Jessica was in high school, it made sense that she would look down on people.... I mean she was in High School surrounded by typical high school small-town types. Everyone thinks bad things about those kinds of people from time to time. When she was in Pineville, I thought she was cool because she had perspective that most high school kids don't have... that being "it's just high school, most of this crap doesn't matter". But Now? This girl is in her 20's, in the biggest city in America and yet she walks around thinking she's so much smarter than everyone. She has to go on and on and analyze every word a person says, every thread of clothing that they put on their bodies. It's SO ANNOYING. I know she's not real but Jessica if you're out there, I just want to tell you: You Suck! She is constantly eavesdropping on people and judging every word they say. And then analyzing what they said and how it reflects on society as a whole.... I know she's a psych major, but give me a break!

I didn't like the whole writing to Marcus thing... especially when it was perfectly clear from the beginning that she was going to say no. She took a week to "think about it" and not once did she think about Marcus and their relationship. Like the good times, the fights, etc. All she thought about was herself in the here and now... I have no idea what a guy would get out of a week long walk-through in her boring and pretentious life, but there it was. And at the end all she realized was that she didn't know who Marcus really was.

PS- If I have to hear the same effing recaps for every situation/person in the next book (yes I will probably push through and read the last book even though I don't really want to) I will break something. Example: "Paul Parlipiano, my high school crush-to-end-all-crushes, my former obsessive object of horniness and gay man of my dreams." (Do we need that every single freaking time he's brought up?!).

Sorry for the rant, but with the first 2 books being so good, I didn't feel it was fair to the audience to make Jessica so unlikable.

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Read my full review for the Jessica Darling Series here: https://frommetoyouvideophoto.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-report-jessica-darling-s... ( )

I have really been struggling with this review. I feel so indifferent that it’s actually hard for me to determine whether I even liked this novel. Everything I had loved about the first two novels has completely disappeared by the fourth. I’m beginning to realize that what I loved so much was that I felt as if I were a friend of Jessica. Crazy, I know but that is how it felt. The two of us we just going through our lives together and while she was sharing more of her issues, I could completely empathize. It had become something of substance and I felt cheated by the singular week provided. It was the first time that the friendship felt superficial to me. She claims that she is putting down all of her feelings on paper so that she can sort through her thoughts concerning the proposal but there really wasn’t a lot of that. She just seemed to brush everything she was really feeling under the rug and there it remained until someone else brought it up. Perhaps I’m so indifferent because she is. I felt like she had lost a lot of the passion and excitement that had led me to her in the first place. I’m glad to know what happened next but she has become a person I doubt I would like to be around. I feel as if it’s almost as if the author is sick of her too. Honestly, I’m not really looking forward to the final installment. ( )

The pace really threw me, especially since I started this right after charmed thirds. I loved that Hope was in this, but felt kind of betrayed by her. And I was not a fan of the ending. It just didn't feel right. Whatever happens in the final book cannot completely make up for this one. ( )