Blurb:

NICK

Okay, so making a viral video mocking my celebrity crush’s pretentious apartment tour isn’t exactly a strategy for finding love.

But when some random guy slides into my DMs claiming to be Anthony Devine—Grammy Award-winning pop star, LGBTQ+ icon, and owner of cheekbones that should be illegal—I assume he’s a forty-five-year-old catfish living in his mom’s basement.

However, we start chatting, and it’s the most real conversation I’ve had in ages. One month and approximately five thousand messages later, AntD has become my favorite person to talk to. He sends me funny memes, asks about my assignments, and actually listens when I rant about my cheating ex. And him insisting he really is Anthony Devine has become our running joke.

Hilarious, right?

I need to stop catching feelings for a guy whose real name I don’t even know, but meeting AntD would mean risking everything we’ve built.

What if he’s not who he says he is?
What if he is?

It Started with a Text is a swoony MM novella about finding real connection in the digital age, featuring a broke college student with too many posters on his wall and the one catfish who might actually be the real deal.

https://geni.us/ItStartedWithAText

*****

Review:

*sigh* This was the sweetest, cutest, funnest thing I’ve read in a long time. I loved Anthony and Nick together – the banter (over text and in real life, so adorable and funny!), their thoughts & fears & inner workings & vulnerabilities & *ugh* everything! Granted it’s a novella, but I started it and didn’t put it down until I was done.

Nick is sassy and smart and the biggest Anthony Devine fan. And while Anthony may be a big star, he’s struggling with his muse and the new normal that fame has brought him. There is something freeing for both of them to make a connection behind a screen, even though (and maybe especially because) Nick doesn’t believe Anthony is who he says he is. We know and it is a delight to see the relationship between them grow and deepen all the way until they are brave enough to meet for real.

The only thing keeping this from a full 5 star read is that I wanted more of them actually together. I got the bonus epilogue from Calder and that helped a lot, loved loved loved Anthony meeting Nick’s family, but the story jumps from them first getting together to 3 years later. I wanted to see more of them together in the same space, how they went from falling in love to in love to HEA. Because I adored them to the ends of the earth and I needed more!