bookbeforeuleap's profile picture

bookbeforeuleap 's review for:

Everything is Fine by Gillian Harvey
3.0

Jess is trying to do it all whilst promoting her picture perfect life to the world via her blog and Instagram, only it's all fake. Everything that built her following, like workouts and healthy eating, have fallen at the wayside and Dave, whose abs gain her more likes than anything else she posts, has left her. Yet determined not to let anyone see what’s happening she continues to post perfect life pictures and tweets and builds up a web of lies, each leading to disastrously funny consequences.

This is an easy, light-hearted, modern read that had me laughing out loud. I like the use of different medias such as tweets, emails and newspaper articles and thought that the use of social media through out was written really well. As someone who blogs and uses Instagram/twitter I found a lot of it very relatable.

My only qualm with the book is that she didn't seem to care about her daughter at all, the author wrote that she cared but it wasn't believable as she barely spoke to her through out the whole book!

Thanks to @alexxlayt at @orionbooks for my #gifted copy in exchange for review.