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A review by thaictaff
At First Blush by Beth Ellyn Summer
3.0
One thing you might not know about me is that my favorite thing to read are fluff young adult books. So maybe my viewpoint on this book could be affected by that. Meaning, I absolutely loved this book so much because of all the unproblematic cuteness around.
Lacey is a teenage girl who has a successful youtube channel about make up tutorials. Her goal is to make a career out of it, and she finds herself closer to achieving that goal when she's picked as one of the three youtubers to intern at a magazine called On Trend. Her job this summer is to work alongside the other interns to make the cover boy, Tyler Lance, look good in front of his fans.
As someone who watches youtubers on a almost daily basis, I really enjoyed seeing the characters as one of them, it was fun and light, at times exaggerated though. I mean, I know it must be difficult getting backlash and you can't please everyone but I don't think it could get to that extend? Maybe that's just me being naive though.
I'm one of those girls, that like Lacey, loves make up and wears it everyday, and it's honestly so rare to find protagonists that are like that that I instantly connected to her, and of course, it made me start loving her. But seriously though, that aside, she was still such a good character, she's charming, fun and enthusiastic, I related to her more and more with every decision she made.
The romance wasn't something overwhelming that I was totally into. I liked the idea of it, although it felt maybe insta-loveish from Tyler's side. I didn't really feel they had a lot of chemistry or connection. However, how it progressed was enjoyable and very cute. I'm conflicted over the fact that it wasn't something I kept wanting to see more of, I was more interested on how she was going to deal with her career and the choices she'd have to make then to see how she'd work things out with Tyler, and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.
Tyler was a fun character, I liked him overall, but he's at times somewhat gullible and a little naive when it comes to his family. So even though I liked him, he frustrated me to no end as well.
The writing was something I really enjoyed, the only thing I wish we could have seen more of is Lacey and Cynth's friendship, but other than that everything was really fun and cute to read, I loved it.
I received this book via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Review also posted at Read. Breathe. Repeat.
Lacey is a teenage girl who has a successful youtube channel about make up tutorials. Her goal is to make a career out of it, and she finds herself closer to achieving that goal when she's picked as one of the three youtubers to intern at a magazine called On Trend. Her job this summer is to work alongside the other interns to make the cover boy, Tyler Lance, look good in front of his fans.
As someone who watches youtubers on a almost daily basis, I really enjoyed seeing the characters as one of them, it was fun and light, at times exaggerated though. I mean, I know it must be difficult getting backlash and you can't please everyone but I don't think it could get to that extend? Maybe that's just me being naive though.
I'm one of those girls, that like Lacey, loves make up and wears it everyday, and it's honestly so rare to find protagonists that are like that that I instantly connected to her, and of course, it made me start loving her. But seriously though, that aside, she was still such a good character, she's charming, fun and enthusiastic, I related to her more and more with every decision she made.
The romance wasn't something overwhelming that I was totally into. I liked the idea of it, although it felt maybe insta-loveish from Tyler's side. I didn't really feel they had a lot of chemistry or connection. However, how it progressed was enjoyable and very cute. I'm conflicted over the fact that it wasn't something I kept wanting to see more of, I was more interested on how she was going to deal with her career and the choices she'd have to make then to see how she'd work things out with Tyler, and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.
Tyler was a fun character, I liked him overall, but he's at times somewhat gullible and a little naive when it comes to his family. So even though I liked him, he frustrated me to no end as well.
The writing was something I really enjoyed, the only thing I wish we could have seen more of is Lacey and Cynth's friendship, but other than that everything was really fun and cute to read, I loved it.
I received this book via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Review also posted at Read. Breathe. Repeat.