refreshing and hopeful

Through the Roof by Natasha West

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


At last eight out of five stars for this one ;)

This is a very refreshing and uplifting book, especially at a time, when mainstream media scribblers, who have the insolence to call themselves journalists, and dimwit politicians worldwide insist on feeding people their C-narrative full of lies and scaremongering and so-called social media platforms censor anyone, who dares to have real information or just a different opinion!

The two heroines, Olivia and Holly, are two intelligent, bold and driven journalists, who are forced to stick with soft fluff and keep their research results about the people they “interview” to themselves to give a platform for voicing if not outright lies, so at least narratives, that circumvent the truth to deceive the public.

As the ratings tank for the morning show the two ladies co-host and the relationship between them changes, the producer decides to fire the senior one of them, causing the two of them to rebel and start producing real journalism and tear first and government minister and then a so-called influencer publicly apart on air.

From the resulting chaos finally emerges the program, after a change of the producer, with the two of them reconciled and new vigour as well as the return of their sharp and witty reporting. Brilliant!

On top of that is the romance between the two main ladies absolutely cute and very well written throughout, so in all it was a very satisfying read and I can only pray for more journalism as is described here to re-appear for all our benefit.



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