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1.5/5 stars
This is entertaining, but it has one of the most obnoxious and annoying characters ever written.
This girl, supposedly dorky (and I will get to her supposed dorkyness later) runs a social media empire based on her likes and wants (like every other teenage blog). She is the voice of cool and trend in this world Sarra Manning created. Jaene is self-centered, selfish and entitled, a hypocrite, nay hypocritical, mean and generally bad person. One would think this person has something remarkable and original, well at least intelligent, to say, yet there is nothing of the sort. Her only quality seems to be her feminism, which borderlines in Social justice warrior. Honestly, none of her speeches are as world changing, mind bending as the author seems to think they are.
Her love interest, Michael, the popular, hot boy, etc, etc, she bugs all the time about his seeking approval from everyone, but she never tries to understand him. And even with this, their relationship is boring.
On regards to the plot, I am extremely confused, because there is none. The romance (genre for which this book is sold) is mostly very bland and it has been done before (it is somewhat similar to The Duff), and in some points there seems to be a toxic relationship between the main characters. In character development, which I thought was the whole point of the book, is so sudden and in some really strange way, really wrong. The author spends most of her book trying to redeem and idolize this girl. An unhappy upbringing has traumatized her, but that does not justify the way she treats everyone, patronizing and judgmental, that has nothing to do with being a dork.
On a side note, with so many people doing great things for the world nowadays, I doubt she would be regarded as the great mind or media queen the author presents her to be, I do not doubt she could be famous, social media is that way, but she is not a game changer.
P.S.: On her dorkyness, the concept that this book seems to convey is that dressing differently, dismissing anything mainstream and having a liking to weird foods is the definition of dork, which inherently differs from mine, that just seems to be hipster-like to me, and as geek and nerd, she does not represent in the least bit how I am, much less the "queen of the nerds". But I'll just let that pass because it's personal.
This is entertaining, but it has one of the most obnoxious and annoying characters ever written.
This girl, supposedly dorky (and I will get to her supposed dorkyness later) runs a social media empire based on her likes and wants (like every other teenage blog). She is the voice of cool and trend in this world Sarra Manning created. Jaene is self-centered, selfish and entitled, a hypocrite, nay hypocritical, mean and generally bad person. One would think this person has something remarkable and original, well at least intelligent, to say, yet there is nothing of the sort. Her only quality seems to be her feminism, which borderlines in Social justice warrior. Honestly, none of her speeches are as world changing, mind bending as the author seems to think they are.
Her love interest, Michael, the popular, hot boy, etc, etc, she bugs all the time about his seeking approval from everyone, but she never tries to understand him. And even with this, their relationship is boring.
On regards to the plot, I am extremely confused, because there is none. The romance (genre for which this book is sold) is mostly very bland and it has been done before (it is somewhat similar to The Duff), and in some points there seems to be a toxic relationship between the main characters. In character development, which I thought was the whole point of the book, is so sudden and in some really strange way, really wrong. The author spends most of her book trying to redeem and idolize this girl. An unhappy upbringing has traumatized her, but that does not justify the way she treats everyone, patronizing and judgmental, that has nothing to do with being a dork.
On a side note, with so many people doing great things for the world nowadays, I doubt she would be regarded as the great mind or media queen the author presents her to be, I do not doubt she could be famous, social media is that way, but she is not a game changer.
P.S.: On her dorkyness, the concept that this book seems to convey is that dressing differently, dismissing anything mainstream and having a liking to weird foods is the definition of dork, which inherently differs from mine, that just seems to be hipster-like to me, and as geek and nerd, she does not represent in the least bit how I am, much less the "queen of the nerds". But I'll just let that pass because it's personal.