A review by doublearegee
Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty

4.0

Definitely the weak link in the chain, yet it gives two of the most memorable lines of the whole series (other than You. Yes, you.) - my thoughts create my world, and love has the longest arms. I can't quite put my finger on why this book doesn't work as well as the others, but when I started it, it felt like a hurdle I had to pass to get to the next one, which I enjoyed more. Maybe because this one feels like such a mishmash of characters? Hey, let's throw pretty much everyone from the previous novels into scenes in this one? I feel like the one person this book was missing was Mary "Call me Chantalle" DiPasquale. I suspect the reasoning behind this may be that the book is missing Marcus, the one person who constantly provided a mirror for Jessica to examine her life, so everyone else had to serve as the "look at yourself. Look at what you're doing. Look at your life" that he did, but still. Between that and the writing style, it just felt cluttered. I realize it does accurately portray the difference between college and high school- in high school you have oh so much time to focus on the minutiae in your day to day life, while in college it's different, but still.