Blurb
When sixteen-year-old Emma Nash is ‘ghosted’ by the love of her life Leon Naylor, she does what any normal teenage girl would do…
Emma spends the summer lurking in her bedroom, avoiding all human contact (and the shower), surrounded by the collection of chewit wrappers she saved from packs Leon gave her, back when he actually acknowledged her existence…But seeing Leon suddenly ‘In a relationship’ on Facebook with the perfect Anna, spurs Emma into action and she embarks on a mission to make positive changes to her life (or ‘edits,’ if you will) and vows to use the internet for more than obsessively stalking Leon’s activities! Instead, she will use it for good and noble causes like finding someone who will actually be nice to her, and recording her findings for the rest of the world to see (i.e. BFF Steph and her mum) on her new Editing Emma blog.
But Emma soon discovers her ‘habit’ is harder to break than she first thought – turns out she’s not the only one ‘editing’ herself online (thank you Tinder for finding her mum’s profile, age 35, really?) and that life through an Instagram filter isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. But it could be worse, she could have outed her best friend, accidentally chatted up a 12 year old boy and revealed to the world why Leon Naylor is worth no girl’s time or virginity… oh no wait, that’s exactly what happened…
Stats
Page Length: 368
Publication Year: August 2017
Genre: Young Adult
Characters: Emma, Leon
Thoughts
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Story/ Characters
The gist of this story is that Emma gets ghosted by her boyfriend and because of this decides to find another boy by using the internet.
I did not enjoy this book, which was disappointing as the blurb really appealed to me. There was wayyy to much angst for my liking! I think this book would be very relatable if I were a 16-year-old girl but an adult it just annoyed the hell out of me.
Emma’s maturity levels were very low and her character progression was like non – existent, it wasn’t until the last few chapters that this “appeared” and even then is so small that it may as well have not been included.
Emma’s Character was I hate to say, was boring. I didn’t connect with her at all, but again this can be attributed to the fact I’m not a 16 year old and I could see from the start of the book that what Emma was trying to achieve would never happen.
I have read books with younger characters that had better self-respect from themselves so the fact that Emma repeatedly let Leon treat her like shit baffled me to no end.
Conclusion:
I read this book in just over a day, purely just to get it finished. This is defiantly one of those YA books where you either have to be a teenager to actually enjoy it or you have to really enjoy teenage angst/drama
My Rating: 1/5 🌟
About the Author
Chloe Seager grew up in East London with her mum and much-loved cat, Katie. She studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, where she sadly realised she couldn’t act, but did rediscover her love of children’s books.
Children’s Literature was one of her favourite modules, and it made her wonder why grown-ups ever stopped reading them. She now works with YA and kids’ books full-time. Chloe lives back in East London with her boyfriend and pet fish. Her debut novel Editing Emma is one of the first titles to be acquired for new imprint HQ YA and will publish on August 10th 2017.
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