This is a weird one. I agree with some of the other reviewers that this didn't necessarily need to be a book and would perhaps have worked better as a long-form essay; some of the points were a little meandering, and the attempts to structure the book into chapters based on reactive emotion didn't really work for me because there was so much overlap between them. Still, it's a short and engaging read, and I'd quite like to have a paper copy of it so that I could highlight all the sections that stood out to me.

This is the first book I've read about the coronavirus pandemic, and for that reason alone, I think it'll stick with me. Shafak's writing is beautiful - I've not ready any of her novels yet, but this book definitely makes me want to move them up to to-read list - and concise, and she engages with political theory in a way that makes it understandable and relevant. I'm not sure she really says anything new in this book; I think we all know, at this point, that social media is a force for both good and evil, and that being perpetually angry isn't particularly useful unless we implement that anger, but she says it well.