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When one character asks another about a…um, BJ, the question is answered, then they plan to go get Starbuck’s.

These four books just take it to a new level by making it CASUAL. Who knows? I would suspect that as long as our species has reproduced the way we do, people have talked about it. This sex thing–GASP–has been going on for years. No, there weren’t sexual references on every page, nor was each book a 225 page orgy. They were banned for being honest about how teenagers behave. The books are all good (though I thought TTFN was the least of the three, but still worth reading), and I can see why they were banned. I liked the characters–enigmatic good-girl Zoe, especially–and the three truly have some adventures. TTYL is tenth grade TTFN is junior year L8TR G8TR is senior year, and the latest release–YOLO–is the “Winsome Threesome’s” first year at college, and the first time they’re all scattered about the country. I won’t go into each of the stories individually, for they basically form one seamless tale, despite covering different blocks of time. Myracle does an admirable job of showing how this technology has inculcated itself into our lives, especially those young enough never to have lived without a smartphone. The girls text, check Facebook pages of friends and enemies alike, get into Twitter to spy on a former nemesis–it’s a slice of 2014 life. I don’t know that this series’ intention was to point out the Facebookisation of the world, but it spotlighted it brilliantly. I’m sitting here, writing this review, and I have text open on my phone, chats on Facebook going, and I check Twitter every few minutes. Here’s the odd part: I got it immediately. The books are written all in text message form, which–as a Lit major–should have taken me awhile to get used to. The Internet Girls series follows the lives of three Atlanta girls who are BFF’s: wild-child Maddie, relatively normal Angela, and the quiet, bookish Zoe. I went to Amazon to read a synopsis, and somehow my finger hit the “Buy With One-Click” or whatever button, and there it was, on my Kindle. What happened was I read an article on banned books, and this was mentioned. I hadn’t originally intended to read this book (or this series), and I’m writing one review for the whole series.