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A review by devansbooklife
People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd
3.0
3.5 Stars
This was a very unique experience for me. I am not really involved in the various social media platforms. I have a Facebook, that is it. I do have many friends who live for this kind of thing. They spend a lot of their day reading posts from "influencers". I don't understand the appeal.
I actually expected to hate this book. I was surprised that I found the narrative interesting. I loathed the characters. Please don't read further if you are easily influenced by reviews, I don't want to influence your experience.
Dan is a wimp and honestly kind of a loser. Emmy is just vile. There is nothing about her that I appreciated or liked. She is incredibly selfish and completely fake. I am almost positive her entire identity was warped into those little squares. I enjoyed the villian more than anyone. She makes sense. She has balls. Maybe unbalanced, rage filled balls but I could relate. Well not entirely, her revenge plan is atrocious and unforgivable.
The narrative is addictive though. I easily understood all the aspects of the fake "reality". And I enjoyed the little twists.
I am rating this a little lower because it took too long to deliver the big reveal. The big plan. There was so much nonsense. And honestly I don't like reality TV or influencers. I found the ending both appropriate and repulsive. I also suspect this probably more accurate than one would believe, because I have no doubt this is the real reality of those types of people. Fame, power, notoriety, those are the things they want and need. There is no room for love or shame.
This was a very unique experience for me. I am not really involved in the various social media platforms. I have a Facebook, that is it. I do have many friends who live for this kind of thing. They spend a lot of their day reading posts from "influencers". I don't understand the appeal.
I actually expected to hate this book. I was surprised that I found the narrative interesting. I loathed the characters. Please don't read further if you are easily influenced by reviews, I don't want to influence your experience.
Dan is a wimp and honestly kind of a loser. Emmy is just vile. There is nothing about her that I appreciated or liked. She is incredibly selfish and completely fake. I am almost positive her entire identity was warped into those little squares. I enjoyed the villian more than anyone. She makes sense. She has balls. Maybe unbalanced, rage filled balls but I could relate. Well not entirely, her revenge plan is atrocious and unforgivable.
The narrative is addictive though. I easily understood all the aspects of the fake "reality". And I enjoyed the little twists.
I am rating this a little lower because it took too long to deliver the big reveal. The big plan. There was so much nonsense. And honestly I don't like reality TV or influencers. I found the ending both appropriate and repulsive. I also suspect this probably more accurate than one would believe, because I have no doubt this is the real reality of those types of people. Fame, power, notoriety, those are the things they want and need. There is no room for love or shame.