TMI

This was a quick and easy read. I passed it on to my daughter to read. I love this author.

I bought this book for my Granddaughter and she loved it! Patty Blount is her favorite author.

TMI by author Patty Blount sounded like an interesting read to get started on. I personally was very excited to get started reading because I have never read any novels that centered around internet romances and characters who may be falling for a catfish (a person who uses social media to create an identity that isn't their own in order to find romance online). After finishing TMI all I can say is that I am so glad I got to check out this read.In TMI best friends Meg and Bailey both find themselves going head to head after Bailey ends up meeting Ryder online. After constantly changing herself to impress her then-current boyfriends, Ryder is everything that Bailey could ever want. He's sweet, understanding and a gamer just like herself. Bailey believes that Ryder is perfect. Her best friend Meg wouldn't understand and she knows that which is why she's trying to keep Ryder her own secret. So when she finally does tell Meg she knows nothing good can come from Meg's pessimistic attitude toward Ryder.Meg has always followed her plan. She wants to graduate from high school, go to university and get a degree, a good job and be good in the finance department. Being madly in love with Chase doesn't exactly benefit her plan. There's no room for him. Meg can't understand why her best friend Bailey wouldn't want to have a plan just like hers. When Meg finds out about Ryder she knows that something isn't right about Ryder or why he constantly finds excuses not to meet Meg or Bailey IRL (in real life). So when Bailey believes that Meg has told a series of secrets that best friends shouldn't tell the two girls find themselves feeding an angry fire over the internet that could destroy their friendship.What I really liked about TMI was how emotional the writing and the characters made me. I'm not talking sobbing into a pillow emotional, I'm talking about angry emotions. The interactions between Bailey and Meg were realistic to the point where it had me furious. The two girls both do a lot of things that best friends should not do. Ever. Yet, both characters would constantly forgive each other or push the things that happened away in order to keep their friendship intact and I personally could see how in the real world teen girls do that a lot to keep their friendships.TMI has two main characters who I think a lot of teen readers will be able to relate to in some way or form and both girls are very different from each other. Meg is an ambitious, artistic teen girl who wants to go far in life and turns away her emotions if it means keeping herself and her secrets safe. Bailey is a beautiful, flirty girl who puts her emotions aside whenever she has a boyfriend and centers her entire life around what her boyfriend thinks of her and what her boyfriend may want. I think teen readers will be able to take away from the plot in TMI and create ways to better themselves in some of the situations the main characters find themselves in.TMI also kept me guessing. All the time. Mostly over who Ryder could really be. I had a few guesses and while my guesses weren't correct (darn!) I think that readers will have fun with guessing the plot twists that the novel introduces. TMI is definitely a novel that will keep readers on their toes and on the edge of their seat as they try to anticipate plot twists and who Ryder must really be IRL and if he and Bailey will ever end up together.I would recommend TMI to readers who want an original read, readers who are big fans of teen fiction and to any readers who want a novel that deals with internet romances and also the dangers that can come with posting certain things on social media sites.

This review is for the third of the four signed books I’ve recently won from this author through a massive giveaway on one internet site, which had consisted of 13 individual ones, and the following is my honest opinion for this book.The first thing any potential reader needs to know about this book is the book’s title, “TMI.” For those who aren’t really savvy on the internet the title appears to be three random letters, lumped together. But, for who are, it means “too much information.” For those who understand this, use it as a response in TwitterSpeak to an overload of information, and in terms for this book, it means there’s been an inappropriate disclosure of personal information.Ms. Blount skillfully explores this notion in her book when Bailey develops an online relationship with a faceless guy. Ryder West, she has yet to meet in person. When this relationship turns into almost an infatuation Bailey wants to spend more quality time with him, and in doing so winds up for the want of a better word, ignoring her best friend, Meg.Naturally, Meg resents being casted aside like an old shoe. She doesn’t trust him, and she wants Bailey to remove the rose-colored glasses she probably wearing, and see the truth regarding who this guy really is. As a good friend, Meg innocently posts an insignificant little secret about Ryder; but winds up creating a rift in her friendship with Bailey, a rift which eventually leads to a feud between the one-time best friends.The dialogue the author uses it authentic, as nothing in the nature of what is being said between the characters. Problems with teens dealing with dead or missing fathers are have also been brought into the mix of the book’s storyline, adding to the powerful nature to what Ms. Blount has created here. And once again, the author has included in the back of the included a discussion guide with question to be answered in a group, and self-examination questions for those who read this book.I hope I haven’t given TMI concerning this book, as it is one which needs to be read on your own to get a better of what the book is communicating; for which I giving it 5 STARS.I read this book from 4/10 – 4/11/15 but due to personal issues I am only posting my review here now.

I read this book because my daughters recently read it and loved it. I really wanted to see what types of books appealed to them. It didn't take long for me to get caught up.The thing I really liked about the story was that it deals with a teenage girl getting involved with someone she meets online. As a mom of two teenage girls, this is something I've had to deal with and worry about. I read this book through Wattpad (first and only time I have used it), and I was interested in reading the comments of the readers as they read the story. It was so nice to read many of them comment about Bailey being stupid to give so much information and in trusting a guy without knowing anything about him. This book gave me another opportunity to talk to my girls.I thought the plot of this book was pretty unique, however it was typical in its teenage angst. There was plenty of drama, and I guess there has to be to keep the storyline going. It's just not something I like to read a lot of, and there's a lot of it to read in this book. The MC involved in the love story part was really frustrating. At the end of the book, you find out why, but it was all kinds of frustrating waiting on her to finally make a decision. There's no way a real teenage guy, especially a hot one like Chase was supposed to be, would hang around that long. He was so great, though.Overall, I did enjoy the story. I would recommend this for anyone who likes to read YA stories. It was clean enough (a little bad language and mild make out scenes) that I was OK knowing my 13 yr old read it. She gets embarrassed easily about anything remotely sexual, and she was comfortable with this one.

this book has an interesting storyline and the ending is well ... individual but I really like it yeah so yhkl

So, the story is fairly decent. And the mystery of who Ryder really is is good enough for a YA novel (though I somewhat figured it out early on, but I'm older than the target audience). My main problem was that I could never bring myself to like the two main characters, Meg and Bailey. The story alternates POV each chapter (though it's not written in first-person, it's third-person limited) so we get the same story from two different viewpoints, which makes for a good read. Although the writing isn't all that great.