A review by deadmooneyes
Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

2.0

This book was fine but I don’t really know if I would recommend it. It was certainly interesting to read a fictional book on a historical event that I lived through. There were definitely portions of it where I went “oh yeah I remember that happening” which was interesting to read. Ultimately I found Clarissa hard to handle just because she was so stupid sometimes and horrible at communicating despite being a writer. She would sound interesting while writing her babble posts but then just seemed super dumb in conversations with people in person or even in her own thoughts. The other characters were definitely weird in that the author painted you one picture of the personalities of the characters and then pulled a 180 in the last ten pages and suddenly the characters are totally different and leaves the reader feeling conflicted with the ending. Ultimately it was okay and a pretty simple read but in a story where little action occurs, I think the characters should have been a little stronger.