Okay so there are some series that you should read back to back just to keep up with the consistency of the characters.

In my opinion this is not one of those series.

And the reason? Because if you do everything about the characters and the plot lines will blend together. There isn't a real way to avoid it. And that doesn't make it a bad series by any stretch of the imagination although there were some books I did enjoy more than others. But it was very formulaic. And while every genre out there follows a formula on some levels, for this one, the proverbial thorn was that on some levels, it was essentially the same basic premise .

Boy meets Girl. There is some sort of texting relationship. Smexy times ensue. Cute animal insert. Misunderstanding or conflict. Resolution.

Honestly, I probably shouldn't have read these 'back to back'. I should have taken at least a month or two in between them. But because they were in the box set and I wanted to finish them all this year, I essentially binged them and that kind of killed it for me. Overall, it was an okay series, hence the three stars. But that is on average because I don't feel all of them were three star worthy.

Here's the break down:

Let's Get Textual: the first and arguably still my favorite. Everything that made this series stand out was still new in this one, and I loved the humor and pop culture references. Plus baby goats. The conflict here was, in essence, the most believable one IMO. Probably the one I would choose to re-read multiple times.

I Wanna Text You Up: so, I appreciated the whole 'girl code' thing here I really did. But six months does not a meaningful relationship make. Six months is enough to realize that you may connect on a physical level but not so much on anything else and move on. So, yeah, that being the main conflict got on my nerves really quickly because it could have been easily resolved had Zoe just gone up to Delia and been honest.

Can't Text This: I don't mind raunchy romance but this was a little much for me in some levels. I found that Monty's innocence and Robbie's vulgarity was too exaggerated at every point in the story. Like, maybe I'm just wired a different way but if a guy I had a one night make out session texted me the way Robbie did? Insta-block. No thank you. Plus, the whole her being the teacher of his child was made to be a bigger deal than it was in the synopsis when in reality it took up two chapters. Not a big deal in the long run.

Text Me Baby One More Time: look, I get people make mistakes. And everyone deserves a second chance or redemption arc. However, every time I was in Shep's head I didn't see that he was deserving of this because in his own brain he was still a sexist, misogynistic jerk. Like, there was nothing there to redeem for me because we didn't even get an external alpha-hole, internal sensitive guy here. Even his reasoning for being a dill-hole to Denny was utter BS. I will admit that I grudge-read this entire book. I was not impressed with this last entry. I don't understand why this was a thing because I could have been content with Shep not receiving an HEA.

Textin' Up My Heart/Let's Get It On: we return to Zach and Delia for these and they were both cute enough and a nice little recap of where everyone was so many years later. It was a nice palate cleanser for me since I disliked Shep and Denny's story so much.

Again, overall enjoyable enough. I will likely never re-read Shep/Denny's story or if I do I will skip all Shep's chapters. But I still maintain to take breaks in between them because the set up is too similar between them all. If you don't, then they will not stand out in your mind on their own.