![]() ![]() I really struggled with it on a paragraph level sometimes. I felt like the narrative jumped back and forth through time, buried the lede, didn't explain things in enough detail, and jumped abruptly from one topic to another. I don't know if the book just hasn't been line-edited yet or what, but the prose lacked clarity. The book uses the frame of the Fyre Festival debacle to explore the whole world of internet hype-an approach that could have worked. But I really didn't, and I'm unsure of whether that's because this is an ARC and there's still a lot of editing to be done before it's published or if it's just a weakness of Bluestone's writing. We are living in a world of grifters, of intentional blindness to facts, of obsession with surface instead of substance, of performative "living." This book promised to explore that world-and explain why it's so very addictive. ![]() ![]() We need to have more discussions about how social media is screwing with our heads, our post-truth society, the phenomenon of influencers and our obsession with "authenticity" as a commodity. I guess I'm the odd one out: I thought this book was a great premise pretty badly (or maybe just mediocre-ly) executed. I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for a fair review. ![]()
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