But how long before her adoring public starts suspecting she staged it for the views? If something isn’t captured for content did it even really happen?
Evie Davis is a second generation social media star, famous since the age of five due to her influencer mom. She’s just turned eighteen with tons of followers, a Youtuber boyfriend, and a momager with her best interests at heart of course. Her older sister Hazel is living the more typical broke 20s lifestyle after having refused to participate in the family fame business and going no contact with their mom. She’s skeptical of the *waves hands* whole thing and worried about her little sis. When Evie disappears in the middle of a livestream, Hazel is determined to find her. Who else could know the real Evie but her sister?
I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen more of the tell-alls that I expected this book to be from the children of the mommy bloggers of the early 2000’s. We get Hazel’s version of the Davis family story as she picks through the life her sister has left behind. There are some good thoughts about the ethics of family blogging. Every character in this story is an unreliable narrator, the hero of their own story and the villain of another’s. The story unfolds slowly with a wild ending that almost makes the meandering worth it. Having said that I would’ve liked to hear more from Evie who really did seem the most interesting, I guess I’m the real villain here.
Or maybe the real villain is the in-book website Such A Bad Influence or SABI which is a thinly veiled GOMI. IYKYK and I did have to put the book down and laugh for a good five minutes over the memories that pulled up!