Harper Anderson always believed she belonged somewhere more glamorous than her sleepy Northern California suburb. After all, how many water polo matches and lame parties in Bobby McKittrick’s backyard can one girl take? That’s why Harper is beyond ecstatic when she lands her dream internship as a dating blogger at the elite teen magazine Shift. Getting to spend the summer in New York City to live her dream of becoming a writer? Harper’s totally in.
There’s just one teeny, tiny, infinitesimal problem: apart from some dance floor make-outs, Harper doesn’t have a lot of—or, really, any—dating expertise. In fact, she might have sort of stolen her best friend’s experiences as her own on her Shiftapplication. But she can learn on the job…right?
From awkward run-ins with the cute neighborhood dog walker to terrifying encounters with her crazed editor, from Brooklyn gallery openings to weekends in the Hamptons, Harper finds out what it takes to make it in the Big City—and as the writer of her own destiny.
This book had been on my radar for awhile and I never got around to reading it until recently and it was so funny. I loved Harper and her friends that she made.
Harper is the girl with no dating experience who becomes the dating blogger at Shift (think of seventeen meets teen vogue) and has no clue what she’s doing. She messes up big time her first day there and somehow ends up turning it all around. Harper us used to living in the shadow of her best friend, and this is the first time she can be her own person. Harper creates for herself a whole new social life with some of the fiercest girls you will ever meet.
I love how the book is set in Manhattan, which is the city I live in, because this way I was able to really get a picture in my head of where the book was taking place. I also love the friendships Harper develops with the other girls she’s working with, they remind me of a younger version of the girls in The Bold Type on Freeform (which is one of the best shows ever.)
I was so proud of Harper when she turned her sticky situation around, she proved to not only herself but the other writers that she is worth being able to work at this magazine.
The one thing that stuck with me the most was “Shift girls don’t say sorry.” The number one thing my mom yells at me for is saying sorry when I’m not at fault and have nothing to say sorry for. And this is so important, because I find that us women say sorry more times than we need to and we need to fix that.
My biggest problem while reading this book was trying to choose between Carter and Ben. We have all fallen for the Carters of the world, the hot guys who think they are better than everyone when the Bens’ are the ones meant for us. And I have fallen for multiple Carters in my life, but it’s always the Bens that pick up the pieces at the end. But I think at the end, I was Team Ben.
This was a cute and fun contemporary. It’s a perfect summer read. I really recommend getting your hands on a copy or putting it on your TBR.
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