Short journal like book..first in the series ( )

*****NOT GOOD FOR YOUNGER AUDIENCES*****


When your world is spinning is it a time when you need to be in control or to lose yourself in a moment. Rebecca is dealing with a death in the family and bills that are piling up. Till she just happens to take a detour home in an art gallery. I had not read the other books in this series and was not lost in this short story. Jones' writing is fluid, pleasant, and creates a world where you are in Rebecca's mind. If you're on the hunt for an adult fiction that feels a little dangerous sexually this is your fix! ( )

These journals become in insight into Rebecca's fate. A must read for all who are reading the Inside Out Trilogy. Each journal is itself a gripping novella from Rebecca's viewpoint. Although we sense Rebecca's youth in her writing, we also become aware of her growing maturity, insecurities, and above all her desperate need to be loved by the Master. ( )

I have spent the last day and a half, considering that its now almost noon in my time zone reading all of Rebecca’s journals.


And I will start by telling you that while I don’t like to add spoilers to my reviews I don’t know if I can write this without giving some things away. But with all that being said I can’t say that I’m not more confused that I was to begin with. I guess for me it’s because I spent all my time in the journals hoping to figure out who Rebecca’s Master truly is. I do have a really good guess as to who it is, I don’t have anything more than that. I’m to the point now that I am speculating anything I can about this story, like maybe Rebecca has a split personality, or just an alter ego. Hell maybe she’s dead, I’m sure that’s what everyone is expecting. But I just don’t have anything definitive yet. But I have faith that it will all be revealed in the next few days as I wrap up the series. I was so amazed with the parallel between Rebecca & Sara’s lives. Both of them losing their mothers, having no one to lean on. To the way they both changed their lives around to work at the art gallery. Rebecca working two jobs so she could work there. And Sara deciding that she could do it if she only did it during the summer. Then the fact that they had a plan but Mr. Compton made them offers to good to refuse for them to stay around. And he, himself was a strange enough character in this story. Although I have my theories on him. I have a lot of theories. Now while you can read this series and never read the lost journals and I know you can skip them and move on without knowing exactly how it all transpired. I personally can’t read like that, I need to know every piece of the puzzle. My suggestion is that you read them all in the order they were intended. I think it only enriches the characters and thus the story that goes along with them.

✯Jammie ( )

Originally Reviewed At: Mother/Gamer/Writer
Rating: 4 Controllers
Review Source: Publisher
Reviewer: Heather


When I first read, If I Were You, I was unaware that there were journals. I mean they’re mentioned in the book, but the author actually wrote out the journals in three short story lengths. I got the privilege of reading the first two, but I’m dying to get my hands on the last one.

When you first read, If I Were You, you’re whipped into the after effects of a woman named Rebecca. Small snippets of her life are revealed, but the journals delve you deep into her world as she becomes engrossed into the world of art and sex.

She’s careful and cautious or at least she wants you to believe it. Perhaps she even believed it herself at one point. When it comes to her master though, it appears all bets are off.

The two journals were a nice companion read to If I Were You, and you can read them before or even after. It’s nice to see the woman Sara (From If I Were You) is trying to find and help, but at the same time she too makes a lot of the same mistakes.

If you’re going to pick up If I Were You, and if you enjoy steamy, erotic romance then you definitely should, go ahead and grab the journals too. It really helps to shine a light on the hidden world that both Sara and Rebecca joined.
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