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Just for Clicks
by Kara McDowell
Just For Clicks is about Claire, her whole life her mom has blogged about her and her twin Poppy. They also have a pretty popular youtube channel. She is basically famous, and really really tired of it. Claire is ready to be out of the social media world, she is tired of the world watching everything she is doing.
The cast of characters in the book is decent. Claire is as a convincing character, she makes questioning choices, but doesn’t every teen? I feel like the other characters gets second seats though. Poppy and their mother is just seen through Claire’s eyes, which is mostly negative throughout the book. I wish there were more moments of them as a family together, before Claire really started to dislike the media life. The only character that is seen in a positive light is of course the love interest, but that didn’t really surprise me. He was okay. Not bad though, totally okay.
The plot has a nice flow, the emails and texts we get in between chapters are a nice touch. The story was plotted out nicely, considering Claire’s future and figuring out what she wants and who she wants to be.
There was however one “big secret” in the story that… well.. annoyed the crap out of me. I’m not going to spoil, but it is a really overused plot device. I can kind of relate to this trope as well, IRL, and every time this shows up the reaction is always the same. And it really makes me roll my eyes. It works out, ish. That was my least favorite part of the book and the times before and after this part of the plot were my favorites. I really wish that this part of the story had not been there at all and that the author had found some other way to tell it.
Well. Well.
There were parts of the book that was really sweet and hilarious, the ending wrapped up nicely and I even teared up once. Wops. This was after being sooo annoyed after the plot I talked about above, haha.
Overall, a sweet (but a bit over the top) YA contemporary! It went by really quickly, so it was really something to read if you want to relax. 3 out of 5 stars, meaning: I liked it.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for providing me with this eArc.
The cast of characters in the book is decent. Claire is as a convincing character, she makes questioning choices, but doesn’t every teen? I feel like the other characters gets second seats though. Poppy and their mother is just seen through Claire’s eyes, which is mostly negative throughout the book. I wish there were more moments of them as a family together, before Claire really started to dislike the media life. The only character that is seen in a positive light is of course the love interest, but that didn’t really surprise me. He was okay. Not bad though, totally okay.
The plot has a nice flow, the emails and texts we get in between chapters are a nice touch. The story was plotted out nicely, considering Claire’s future and figuring out what she wants and who she wants to be.
There was however one “big secret” in the story that… well.. annoyed the crap out of me. I’m not going to spoil, but it is a really overused plot device. I can kind of relate to this trope as well, IRL, and every time this shows up the reaction is always the same. And it really makes me roll my eyes. It works out, ish. That was my least favorite part of the book and the times before and after this part of the plot were my favorites. I really wish that this part of the story had not been there at all and that the author had found some other way to tell it.
Well. Well.
There were parts of the book that was really sweet and hilarious, the ending wrapped up nicely and I even teared up once. Wops. This was after being sooo annoyed after the plot I talked about above, haha.
Overall, a sweet (but a bit over the top) YA contemporary! It went by really quickly, so it was really something to read if you want to relax. 3 out of 5 stars, meaning: I liked it.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for providing me with this eArc.