On Sale Date: April 4th 2017
Pages: 340
Age Range: Young Adult
Lacey Robbins is a teen who is quite succesfull with her make-up tutorial video's on Youtube. Altough the vlogging goes quite well and she has thousands of vieuwers, she is anticipating the day that she will get a hundred thousand subscribers and will be entered in the Glass Cube world of Youtube, where influencers get to work with brands. She gets the chance to intern with three other youtubers at On Trend magazine in New York City. This seems to be the chance to get more viewers for her channel, and she works hard and finally reaches Glass Tube.
But from the outside it seemed more fun than it actually is in the real world. She get's to review and do tutorial with make up sponsored by a certain brand, but the quality of the make up is so bad that it's quite hard to write something positive about it. But the very nice girl working at the make up department introduces her into the work that professional make-up artists do, with makes her wonder if that isn't also something she would like to do. Teen idol Tyler Lance is set in by the magazine to star in the intern's youtube video's. Something is blooming up between him and Lacey, but later on she figures out that he is using her to mostly get promotion for himself, which leads to some nasty situations that leak out online. But he also helps Lacey to figure out what she really wants in life. Lacey's audience is losing interest, and is blaming Lacey for being fake, and only is dating Lance to get famous. Her whole authenticity on youtube seems to fade away. Slowly on, Lacey is doubting if youtube is the right path for her, and has to make some drastic decisions for her future.
Overall I found this a very well written and fun read. Youtube is more popular than ever, and the author created a good main character who is making youtube make up tutorials, one of the most popular type of video's. I really liked that the author didn't make it all too easy for Lacey. There where quite some obstacles and struggles in her road to Youtube succes, and she really questions in the end if it's all worth it.
When Lacey starts to help a make up artist at a late night show, I couldn't help but picture Jimmy Fallon's show in my head. And afterwards I read that the author was an intern at exactly that show. So the author just paints a very vivid and real picture of what goes on behind the scenes. The romance between her and Tyler was cute, not anything I haven't read before though. I really enjoyed reading it and I think this book is perfect for teen girls who are into Youtube starts like Zoella. Very well written and fast paced. Recommend it!
