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A review by esthersreadingstats
How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne
2.0
The idea? Wonderful, astounding, something that more people should be writing about.
The execution? Crickets.
A book with complex topics (marriage, children, careers) shouldn’t have a rushed ending like that. I feel like the book was building up to some big realisation about living your own life and to not focus on others but… apparently not.
Also… images of an Instagram post in a book? It’s okay to experiment with formatting but that did not work at all.
Also yeah congrats to Tori for leaving Tom but the fact she’s stupidly oblivious about her career and how people must be envious of her. For there to be NO DISCUSSION (apart from a side character who were meant to dislike bringing it up) on how we perceive other lives vs how people perceive us just feels like a missed opportunity, especially given the overall message.
The execution? Crickets.
A book with complex topics (marriage, children, careers) shouldn’t have a rushed ending like that. I feel like the book was building up to some big realisation about living your own life and to not focus on others but… apparently not.
Also… images of an Instagram post in a book? It’s okay to experiment with formatting but that did not work at all.
Also yeah congrats to Tori for leaving Tom but the fact she’s stupidly oblivious about her career and how people must be envious of her. For there to be NO DISCUSSION (apart from a side character who were meant to dislike bringing it up) on how we perceive other lives vs how people perceive us just feels like a missed opportunity, especially given the overall message.