ISBN: 9780008220976. August 10 2017. Harper Collins. Won via Twitter.
When sixteen-year-old Emma Nash is ‘ghosted’ by the love of her life Leon Naylor, she does what any normal teenage girl would do…
Emma spends the summer lurking in her bedroom, avoiding all human contact (and the shower), surrounded by the collection of chewit wrappers she saved from packs Leon gave her, back when he actually acknowledged her existence…
But seeing Leon suddenly ‘In a relationship’ on Facebook with the perfect Anna, spurs Emma into action and she embarks on a mission to make positive changes to her life (or ‘edits,’ if you will) and vows to use the internet for more than obsessively stalking Leon’s activities! Instead, she will use it for good and noble causes like finding someone who will actually be nice to her, and recording her findings for the rest of the world to see (i.e. BFF Steph and her mum) on her new Editing Emma blog.
But Emma soon discovers her ‘habit’ is harder to break than she first thought – turns out she’s not the only one ‘editing’ herself online (thank you Tinder for finding her mum’s profile, age 35, really?) and that life through an Instagram filter isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. But it could be worse, she could have outed her best friend, accidentally chatted up a 12 year old boy and revealed to the world why Leon Naylor is worth no girl’s time or virginity… oh no wait, that’s exactly what happened…
The colours on this book are some of my favourite on any cover. The combination is very eyecatching.
This book is another of those who were devoured in one sitting.This book was funny in all the right ways, honest in many others. A very light book about a teen finding herself whilst navigating her ‘awkward’ situations.
Emma was fairly likeable and I found I associated with her on occasion. Having said that though, I wanted to shake her and call her an idiot at times. Her obsessions with Leon made me uncomfortable and she was not a nice person when it came to Greg and Laurence. It was refreshing to see a character grow the way she does towards the end. I hated Leon. I knew a few guys like him when I was a teen and they just aren’t nice people.
The plot was great. The book was full of references to our modern world and they never failed to make me smile. The only niggle I had was the amount of use the word masturbation got.
This book is a 4 out of 5 stars.
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