Publisher: Point (Scholastic)
Publication Date: May 29nd 2018
Pages: 304
Skye is just a normal teenager, who loves social media and to hang out with her best friends Asha and Emma. But things take a wrong turn when Asha and Emma dare Skye during a sleepover to try out a daring set of lingerie, and they film it and post it on the social media site ChitChat, on where you can post something but can't delete it anymore after fifteen minutes, so it can be seen there forever and ever. But Asha deletes it, so everything is ok, right?
But shortly afterwards Sky receives text message from an anonymous person. He or she threats to post the video of Skye when she doesn't meet her demands.Skye's perfect image , which she has to maintain especially now she is in the running for an internship at a local senator's office, and privacy are suddenly in jeopardy. What will Skye do to keep the screenshot under wraps?
In this book, as a few of her other ones, author Donna Cooner handles the actual topic of the dark side of social media in a way that makes it entertaining to read for teen girls. Skye felt very realistic and her worries and anxieties and just her life was on point on how teenagers think, and how she was trying to keep all the parts of her life in perfect order; high school, being in the student council, her good grades, her part time job at a store, and her hard work to earn the senator internship. This is also a story how a friendship can turn bad, especially in combination with social media and about self image. I loved the part where Skye realises and questions the blackmailings of her online stalker; is it really that bad when the picture goes online? Isn't the non-perfect video really that bad? Or is it just even more bad that one of her supposed best friend, whose life is anything but perfect is behind the blackmailing? It all was very good and entertaining, and you just want to find out what happens in the end. I truly recommend this well written book and I just can't wait to start reading Donna Cooner's new book Fake which I will review very soon here on my blog!
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