kiiwiisii 's review for:

Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers by Stephanie McNeal

3.0

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I enjoyed reading this. I found the subject matter interesting and McNeal is an entertaining writer. But she admits early on that she is pretty obsessed with influencers and the bias shows throughout. The same anecdotes and stories are repeated more than once, and make it hard to put things in chronological order. She does not do justice to her interviewees. Caitlin especially could’ve done with some editing of her verbal tics “like” and “just” being almost every other word. I was initially on Shannon’s side as a “messy mom” but by the end, I absolutely hated her. Her own words and the quotes from her children make it very clear that she has been exploiting them for profit, and they know that as young as 5 and 6 years old. By the end it was just hard to read. Mirna seems fine.