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I read Girl Online back in December after receiving form my lovely mother (thanks mum!). There has been a lot of attention on this book and not all of it good attention. I'm not sure exactly what happened but what I've gathered is that Zoe didn't write it all and some of it was ghost written. A lot of people seen to be upset or angry about this and I do understand why, I do. However personally it doesn't really bother me, I figured that she would have gotten help with writing it because people don't tend to randomly become a writer, not all on their own.
I'll admit this book only made it onto my Christmas list to Santa because I'm a big zoella fan, I watch her videos religiously and I love her blog. BUT this review is surprisingly not as bias as I thought it would be because just rating it on it's storyline and characters I genuinely loved it (okay it sounds really bias but its not, honest!)
Now bare with me as I'm not entirely sure how to write a book review haha /).(\ ....
The book is set in Brighten and follows the main character Penny, a 15 year old with a secret blog. Penny is dealing with anxiety and panic attacks which are new and scary to her and throughout the book it shows how they develop and how she deals with them. Penny lives next door to her very stylish gay best friend, Elliot who is dealing with his own problems. Penny goes through some embarrassing moments involving school as well as some friendship problems which make her anxiety worst. Then as if a fairy godmother granted her wish, she gets whisked away to New York where she soon meets the rock-godtastic Noah who sweeps her off her feet. The only thing is that Noah has his own secret that Penny is yet to find out about.
Okay so I suck at summing the story up without giving too much away but that ^^ is pretty much what the blurb says on the back of the book just reworded so yeah... Haha
I don't think I've ever read a book that I related to so much! Although I don't have panic attacks like Penny an I certainly have never met a Noah (although There's this guy at school who looks just like what I imagined Noah to look like ;)) there were so many times I laughed out loud purely because I related and knew exactly what she was talking about.
Penny is around my age so when she talks about school, especially since it's a British secondary school, it's easy to imagine and relate too (the struggles are real ;-;). Also she is quite an awkward and clumsy teenager and when she gets nervous she gets worse, just like me.
I could go on and on about all the mixed feels this book gave me, like all the LOL moments and the times I got butterflies (like when Noah showed up.. Ooh ) but I think you get the picture :)
I think the characters were we thought out well and were interesting and I fell in love with them but I felt like their speech didn't always flow very realistically, that didn't really affect my love for the book much. I also really enjoyed the plot but I guessed Noah's secret straight away which I honestly didn't see coming when he was first introduced but I felt like I could of been hidden better and would of been nice to find out when Penny did but at the same time it did create dramatic irony as we were just waiting for her to find out. So I admit this book wasn't by any means perfect but I still loved it.
This was a easy light read and a refreshing break from my usual fantasy and dystopian books that normally contain a kickass hero/heroine fighting against the forces of evil, I obviously love these books but it was lovely to just read about a regular teenager.
Being a Zoella fan, it's was great to see little snippets of her in this book like the blog posts weaved into the story, the fact it was set in Brighton where Zoe live and talks about all the places that Penny loves that Zoe also loves like The Lanes and the beach, also the little bits like where Penny wore a milkmaid braid which Zoe did a video of :)
I gave this book a 5 star rating, call me just a loyal fan joining the over-rated but I genuinely loved reading it. I think Zoe -or who ever wrote it- should be very proud and will probably reread this as I actually miss it and I can't wait the second one which I believe is coming out in November.
Have you read this book? I'd love to here your opinion on it in the comments!
Also do you have any books that you have read lately and recommend?
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed! ^.^
CYA!
-Alice :) xx
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| This is the picture I took on Christmas ft. Rainbow Dash (my build a bear ) |
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