Hello World,
Christmas is drawing near and only just on Wednesday I have finished Christmas shopping. This is normally crazy for me, as I am normally more organised and have finished my Christmas shopping by the second week of December. Wrapped and under the Christmas tree. This year however the family dog is becoming a bit more cheeky, so we now have to hide them in our rooms. I have woken many times in the nights, where I have not properly closed the bedroom door and the dog has managed to come in and started sniffing about. I am becoming more aware of closing my door.
Today, I have made myself a day of reading. I did this last weekend for The Daughter of Smoke and Bone. And straight after finishing that book, I started Zoe Sugg's new and first book 'Girl Online'. I admire Zoe, she is an inspiration to me. If it wasn't for Zoe's YouTube channel and Blog post, I personally wouldn't have started my own blogging hobby. I honestly couldn't have been more happy for the success Zoe had received from her first ever novel, even though I have read a lot of negativity about how people are becoming 'sell outs'.
Girl Online is about a young girl in school who suffers from panic attacks and writes on her blog about her feelings and anxieties. She meets a boy and falls in 'love', but of course the boy has a little secret of it's own. The secret unravels and drama blooms, the dangers of first love and romance.
This was the best way to describe Girl Online, without giving away any spoilers. I am very anti-spoilers, so I am always sure to never give any away. Please feel free to scold me if I have ever given or give spoilers to my book reviews.
Here is my personal view on Girl Online;
I wanted to make Girl Online my Christmas book, I would have liked to have made it last until Christmas and to have finished it on Christmas day, in a complete bliss. I, however couldn't do that. I have this strong curiosity in finishing books and finding out how they make their plot unravel. How authors tell their story through their writing? So, I ended up dedicating a day to finishing this book, so I can have my questions answered and also to get it over with.
I knew from the start that Girl Online would be more suited for teenagers and that the plot would be a typical teenage romance story, because that is how I imagined Zoe would be. Even when I was a teenager myself, I was never interested in modern 'real' romance story and it is something that I never have grown to enjoy.
I am however glad to have read and finished the book, because I really wanted to be supportive to Zoe, even though I don't know her personally and I wanted to know what the book was like. Also, I am just happy to have fed my curiosity.
Rose
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