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Sociable
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bookshelves: arcs, published-2018, new-adult, netgalley, read-2018, stars-1
Jan 27, 2018
bookshelves: arcs, published-2018, new-adult, netgalley, read-2018, stars-1
The author has started to get people to put up fake 5-star reviews and I'm exhausted.
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Thank you Netgalley for providing me this ARC in exchange for a review.
This book is marketed as a book that should hit so close to home for me - a millennial went to college for journalism and now works at a Buzzfeed like company. And you know what? She's really good at writing material that goes viral! Is she compromising her values by doing this?
The description of this book, particularly on Goodreads, is incredibly misleading. Is this book meant to be a satire of millennials and how they're viewed? This book is not about a woman who goes to work for a Buzzfeed like company - it's about a woman who cannot get over a breakup with her terrible ex, and who happens to get a job at a company.
So here are my thoughts laid out easily:
1. If you are going to have website addresses in your book, buy the domain and have them go to your book's site or author's site. It should be part of your marketing campaign.
2. I've never worked at a startup, though I do have friends that do, and for the most part, this "we aren't going to give you any guidelines, new person" seems to be satire in the book, but this book isn't advertised as a satire. The nepotism in this book I buy.
3. The mentorship plot line and the older journalist plotline could have had some depth. They felt flat and forced and absolutely ridiculous.
4. Pick a POV? The "perhaps the reader" thrown in occasionally is jarring and isn't earned.
5. There's no growth in the main character at all. I got to the end of the book, flipped the page expecting more, and was actually genuinely shocked that it was over. What was the major drama? What did she learn from it? What did she gain? The description makes it sound like she starts debating if NYC is worth it, but honestly, nothing in her life has value except her worthless ex. She doesn't even have the cliched growth of "I have found my path alone!" ......though I think that's the vibe we are supposed to get.
6. Female friendships. I am so sick of books portraying women as not being able to have female friendships with actual merit and depth. The main character only has faux friends, including her "best friend" who reminds me of friends I dropped in my early 20s for being fake as can be. None of the friendships felt real. Is it the fault of the MC who has no depth? IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A SATIRE OF MILLENNIALS?
I genuinely do not get the point of this book and what it's trying to accomplish.
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Netgalley arc. read for 24in48. Full review to come later this week.
***
Thank you Netgalley for providing me this ARC in exchange for a review.
This book is marketed as a book that should hit so close to home for me - a millennial went to college for journalism and now works at a Buzzfeed like company. And you know what? She's really good at writing material that goes viral! Is she compromising her values by doing this?
The description of this book, particularly on Goodreads, is incredibly misleading. Is this book meant to be a satire of millennials and how they're viewed? This book is not about a woman who goes to work for a Buzzfeed like company - it's about a woman who cannot get over a breakup with her terrible ex, and who happens to get a job at a company.
So here are my thoughts laid out easily:
1. If you are going to have website addresses in your book, buy the domain and have them go to your book's site or author's site. It should be part of your marketing campaign.
2. I've never worked at a startup, though I do have friends that do, and for the most part, this "we aren't going to give you any guidelines, new person" seems to be satire in the book, but this book isn't advertised as a satire. The nepotism in this book I buy.
3. The mentorship plot line and the older journalist plotline could have had some depth. They felt flat and forced and absolutely ridiculous.
4. Pick a POV? The "perhaps the reader" thrown in occasionally is jarring and isn't earned.
5. There's no growth in the main character at all. I got to the end of the book, flipped the page expecting more, and was actually genuinely shocked that it was over. What was the major drama? What did she learn from it? What did she gain? The description makes it sound like she starts debating if NYC is worth it, but honestly, nothing in her life has value except her worthless ex. She doesn't even have the cliched growth of "I have found my path alone!" ......though I think that's the vibe we are supposed to get.
6. Female friendships. I am so sick of books portraying women as not being able to have female friendships with actual merit and depth. The main character only has faux friends, including her "best friend" who reminds me of friends I dropped in my early 20s for being fake as can be. None of the friendships felt real. Is it the fault of the MC who has no depth? IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A SATIRE OF MILLENNIALS?
I genuinely do not get the point of this book and what it's trying to accomplish.
***
Netgalley arc. read for 24in48. Full review to come later this week.
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Reading Progress
August 29, 2017
– Shelved
August 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
arcs
August 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
to-read
August 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
published-2018
August 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
new-adult
August 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
netgalley
January 27, 2018
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Started Reading
January 27, 2018
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61.0%
"so far this book isn't what it promised to be at all. and it's reads like it's written by someone who hates millennials."
January 27, 2018
– Shelved as:
read-2018
January 27, 2018
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Finished Reading
January 16, 2019
– Shelved as:
stars-1
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Jul 12, 2019 11:18AM
Everything in this review is spot on and perfect.
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