I won’t go into each of the stories individually, for they basically form one seamless tale, despite covering different blocks of time. Myracle does an admirable job of showing how this technology has inculcated itself into our lives, especially those young enough never to have lived without a smartphone. The girls text, check Facebook pages of friends and enemies alike, get into Twitter to spy on a former nemesis–it’s a slice of 2014 life. I don’t know that this series’ intention was to point out the Facebookisation of the world, but it spotlighted it brilliantly.
I’m sitting here, writing this review, and I have text open on my phone, chats on Facebook going, and I check Twitter every few minutes. Here’s the odd part: I got it immediately. The books are written all in text message form, which–as a Lit major–should have taken me awhile to get used to. The Internet Girls series follows the lives of three Atlanta girls who are BFF’s: wild-child Maddie, relatively normal Angela, and the quiet, bookish Zoe. I went to Amazon to read a synopsis, and somehow my finger hit the “Buy With One-Click” or whatever button, and there it was, on my Kindle. What happened was I read an article on banned books, and this was mentioned. I hadn’t originally intended to read this book (or this series), and I’m writing one review for the whole series.
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