![]() ![]() There are two distinct levels to read this book: the teen perspective, but also that as a parent. Cell phones and social media platforms have yet to dominate teens’ lives in the 1990s. A striking moment is when one teen drops a flat device Flat device with a picture of an apple with a bite taken of it, and Jess merely looks on in bafflement. Jess Flynn struggles with average teenage angst over school to romance, never realizing that her life takes place on a carefully curated reality TV set with millions of online fans and producers who conjure up soap opera plot twists to keep tune-in high. ![]() It is a clever storytelling plot, which leaves you as the reader as naive as Jess, our 17-year-old clueless heroine. This young adult foray offers up surprising plots twists that keep you riveted and reading quickly, with the clever unfolding plot paralleling Jim Carey’s The Truman Show It portrays a dystopian social media and influencer landscape 40 years in the future gone amuck, overlayed with teens growing up in the relative simplicity and lack of tech of America in the 1990’s. ![]()
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