Mommy blogs are great . . . unless the blog happens to belong to your mom.
Twin sisters Claire & Poppy are accidental social media stars thanks to Mom going viral when they were babies. Now, as teens, they’re expected to contribute by building their own brand. Attending a NY fashion week and receiving fan mail is a blast. Fending off internet trolls and would-be kidnappers? Not so much. Poppy embraces it. Claire hates it. Will anybody accept her as “just Claire”? And what should Claire do about Mom’s old journals? The handwritten entries definitely don’t sound like Mom’s perfect blog persona. Worse, one of them divulges a secret that leaves Claire wondering what else in her life might be nothing but a sham . . . (taken from goodreads.com)
Claire and Poppy Dixon have known nothing else but being internet famous since the moment they were born. And they have always done everything together, but Claire is done being one half of the viral internet sensation that are the Dixon Twins. Claire’s strong desire to stop being on camera causes a rift between herself, her mom and her sister as she discovers some of the non-shiny parts of her life that her mom left out from her blog posts.
I really enjoyed this novel. It was cute, funny, heartfelt and sweet. It was well written, the characters were well developed and I found the plot to be a lot of fun!
The novel focuses on different relationships that Claire has, starting with her growing relationship with Rafael. Rafael is the new boy in town and chooses Claire to be the person he sits with on his first day during lunch. Their relationship is fun to watch, the two are very different but balance each other out.
Claire and her sister Poppy are as different as night and day. Poppy loves being in front of the camera, and not in a shallow way, in a way that brings her genuine joy and its something she is passionate about. Their relationship is close and its nice to see sisters who balance each other out so well.
Claire is anxious and suffers from PTSD due to an incident we learn more about in detail as the novel goes on.
The plot twists throughout this novel made this book so much fun to read and gave us a deeper understanding of Claire’s mom. The blog is something that means everything to Claire’s mom, sometimes Claire can’t understand that but as she learns more about her mom she starts to understand her attachment to the blog.
I found that this story did an amazing job of portraying what its like living your life in front of a camera, giving us emails and comment threads peppered throughout the book.
I really enjoyed this!! I highly recommend you pick it up!