Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty, 3

Book description: Captivated readers have followed Jessica through every step and misstep: from her life as a tormented, tart-tongued teenager to her years as a college grad stumbling toward adulthood. Now a young professional in her mid-twenties, Jess is off to a Caribbean wedding. As she rushes to her gate at the airport, she literally runs into her former boyfriend, Marcus Flutie. It’s the first time she's seen him since she reluctantly turned down his marriage proposal three years earlier–and emotions run high.

Marcus and Jessica have both changed dramatically, yet their connection feels as familiar as ever. Is their reunion just a fluke or has fate orchestrated this collision of their lives once again?

Told partly from Marcus’s point of view, Perfect Fifths finally lets readers inside the mind of the one person who’s both troubled and titillated Jessica Darling for years. Expect nothing less than the satisfying conclusion fans have been waiting for, one perfect in its imperfection. . . .

Review: Perfect Fifths is the fifth and final book in the Jessica Darling series. I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I actually liked the events that happened but the way the book was written was too distracting for me to really get into it. It was a very odd choice to write the book in third-person when the rest of the series was written in first-person. The change in style made it feel like it wasn’t a Jessica Darling book and I really missed Jessica’s voice. The third-person perspective wasn’t the only stylistic choice I found odd. A large chunk was entirely dialogue and this was actually the least distracting part of the book. There was an entire section written in haikus for no reason and there some weird, rambling stream of consciousness thing towards the end. These things made the book seem more like a series of assignments in a creative writing class than an actual book.

Despite my problems with the way the book was written, I’m happy it wasn’t depressing or vomit inducing like the third and fourth books were. I am mostly satisfied with how Jessica’s story ended. I’m not sorry I completed the series but I still kind of wish the author had stopped after the second book.

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