Initial Impressions 12/21/15: UGHHH this pains me but more like 3.5 stars than 4. 
 CALL ME, MAYBE started off SUPER DUPER cute but I really lost steam with it once it hit the halfway point and Clementine's insecurities started kicking in. I just have a really, really hard time with plots where a girl sabotages herself with insecurities. Like dude, everything was totally cool. And then all of these THOUGHTS came out of nowhere with no logic behind them. It's just something I have a hard time with. 
 The secret identity thing had a sort of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days feel to it, especially towards the end when worlds collide! That was definitely cute but also you KNOW that moment is coming so it's so it's so painful to watch. 
 As a book blogger, I loved and hated the fact that it was something I shared with Clementine. On one hand, it was like YES connection! I can put myself in this role. On the other hand, it felt like I was reading my own fanfiction about my own life? Like when I try to write a character and it really just comes out as me because I'm not creative (not saying that about Ellie Cahill - like, that's how I feel when I write things haha). So in that sense, it was hard to read about Clem as a book blogger. Also, I guess mild spoiler... (view spoiler)[ a bit frustrating when a job opportunity to write just HAPPENS to fall into her lap. There are zillions of book bloggers out there and I feel like it's not that easy to just randomly get approached for a job. Maybe she's a super-big blogger (the book didn't really specify) but I felt like that's something that would never happen to me, especially when we as book bloggers complain about how we need jobs where we can read and blog all day haha! It just felt too easy. (hide spoiler)] 
 The beginning was positively adorable but the whole thing with Clementine essentially sabotaging herself and getting to be a bit of a crazy girlfriend really turned me off. They had only known each other for a short period of time and she had no reason to be jealous/suspicious. Eek. I think it just ended on a weird note for me and I was sad to lose that coy, flirty feeling I had in the beginning. The beginning reminded me of my own crushes in college and whatnot and then end it just felt like things were unraveling. 
 Full review as originally posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 2/1/16: I'm a huge fan of Liz Czukas' YA novels and absolutely adored her first NA, WHEN JOSS MET MATT. When I heard about CALL ME MAYBE, I knew I had to get my hands on it quickly! Like all of her other novels, CALL ME MAYBE was a fun and quick read. It was also, however, the book of hers that I've had the most issues with to date. 
 CALL ME MAYBE started out incredibly cute. Readers get to know Clementine who seems just like the girl next door... if the girl next door's family was filthy, filthy rich. Chaos and adorableness ensues when Clementine and mysterious hot stranger accidentally switch phones and end up making a connection while talking. The phone conversations were absolutely adorable and I was quickly falling in love with these two characters and their relationship! I loved how they got to know one another and since it's New Adult, we got to dip more into the sexy side of flirting. Some of it actually really reminded me of text conversations I had while in college (well, maybe they weren't sexy like that but the texts reminded me of my own) when I had all of the feelings for a new crush! 
 Fellow book bloggers might also love that Clementine is a book worm and blogger just like us! At first I was super thrilled because hey, she's just like me! But as the story progressed, I sort of felt like I was reading something that I had written... but not really in a good way. Don't get me wrong! This wasn't the author's fault, but I have a terribly, terribly bad habit of "writing what I know" aka, I fictionalize my own life when I run out of creative ideas when writing (seriously. This is why I'm a reader and not a writer) so it sort of started to feel like that for me. I also ended up having a hard time with Clem's job choices and how easy/hard it was to find something in her field. Trust me -- we as bloggers would love to write reviews and blog and get paid for it but it's not as easy as it sounds. Some things just felt like they happened a little too easily since for me/us, the struggle is real. 
 My big hang-up, though, was that Clementine really ended up self-sabotaging and that was THE reason for conflict in the book. Things were going just fine until she started getting suspicious, jealous, and freaking out for honestly no reason at all. There really could have been some other conflict or maybe something more justifiable for her to freak out like she did but I really didn't feel like her actions were warranted and that totally turned me off. I didn't really feel sorry for her because any drama that happened, she really did it to herself. 
 I was so bummed that it started out so cute and really lost steam about halfway through. I just wanted so much more from this book considering WHEN JOSS MET MATT is still one of my favorite contemporary books and was easily a favorite from 2015. CALL ME, MAYBE just didn't quite live up to its predecessor and was so sad that I didn't fall in love with it.