Expected On Sale Date: October 11th 2016
Pages: 320
Age Range: Young Adult
Sammy Wallach is a very responsible teenager. She studies hard for her AP exams, gets good grades and is trying hard to get her drivers license. The end of junior year is coming closer, and she hopes that her crush Jamie Moss will ask her to prom. It seems like it all starts to work out for Sammy as she wants it, but then something happens that she, and no one else could expect. Her father works at an important bank, that is targeted by hackers and everything in the personal and private cloud of the Wallach family is stolen, including her their whole digital life. Now everyone has acces and can read her emails, texts, photos, and, worst of all, journal.
Sammy's life seems to be over. Her friends ditch her after they read everything and she is ashamed to appear at school at all. And her parents also know now everything that she did not tell in the past and the rules she broke. Things get worse: Sammy's friends now earlier than she that something is wrong with Sammy's mother, something that is even more life challenging that put the whole digital theft on the background. It is just to hope that her mom will survive this.
I have read two other books by Sarah Darer previously, two books I liked a lot so I was looking forward when I had the chance to read the e-galley of her newest upcoming book. It was again a very good read. I just love the way Sarah writes. The story has many serious topics but it is written in such a light and brilliant way, especially the things that happened to Sammy's mom where very touching and how Sammy handled this and helped her was just very moving. When her life goes viral, and her friends dumped her, I questioned how much of a friend they where in the first place, first of all for reading it, which they had also the option of not to do. But in the end, one of her friends returns and shows her true colors, which was nice.
Without giving too much spoilers of the story away, I can say I enjoyed this book a lot. Sarah's authentic style of writing and giving her characters always a realistic teen voice, the amazing storyline and the realistic characters makes that I recommend reading this book when it lands in bookstores this coming october!!
