Little White Lies

If this book was what the blurbs say it's going to be, I'd be really into it. I'm a blogger and tweeter, so the story of a teen whose tumblr goes viral and then ends up with a ghostwriter sounded right up my alley. But while the book starts pretty well and feels like a solid YA at first, it goes off......more

This is a readable book with a cool premise. Black, 17 year old Cameron becomes a famous blogger overnight, eventually getting into trouble by promising more than she can deliver. She hires Karl, a white 41 year old, to ghost write her blog. The chapters are written in alternating voices. Both voice......more

I wanted to like this book more. :/ Some selected issues: -the problem with having characters whose genius is literary: you have to introduce some of their output into evidence, and if it doesn't feel like the best lyrics/poetry/tweets/blogposts ever, it shatters suspension of disbelief. The blogposts......more