Review: Goodnight Tweetheart, Teresa Medeiros

Title: Goodnight Tweetheart

Author: Teresa Medeiros

Paperback: 240 Pages
Publisher: Gallery
Release Date: 12/14/10
ISBN: 978-1439188156

Description:

@WhtTheHeckHappenedToMyLife

 

Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing. Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah’s stamp of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she’s intrigued. What’s all the fuss?

Trending Topic: True Love

Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, “MarkBaynard"—a quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical—Abby finds it easy to put words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in her apartment staring at her TweetDeck and fretting about her stalled career when Mark is out there traveling the world and living?

Or is he?

Told almost entirely in tweets and DMs, Goodnight Tweetheart is a truly modern take on a classic tale of love and loss—a Griffin and Sabine for the Twitter generation.

My Review:

I must admit that when I picked up Goodnight Tweetheart that I was uncertain how could a book be written with tweets of a 140 characters or less.  Let me say that Goodnight Tweetheart was everything I was not expecting.  It was cute and adoring.  It also proved what kind of conversations you could have with very few words.

As a novelist Abigail had the dreaded writers block on chapter five.  That is when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account.  Not knowing a thing about Twitter MarkBaynard takes Abigail under his wing and teaches her the finer points of Twitter.

Eventually, they had online dates somewhere different each time, learning about each other, discovering similarities.  Never meeting in person Abigail finds herself drawn to MarkBaynard.  Was he for real or was he hiding something from her.

MarkBaynard has his own secret and he refuses to tell Abigail about it.  He enjoys the conversations and dates as Abigail discovers Twitter.  At the end, will their Twitter romance turn into something more?  Or will MarkBaynard's secret be too much for her to handle?

My Rating: