A review by lanaprice
Off the Record, by Camryn Garrett
5.0
Trigger warning: Sexual assault and sexual harassment.
I. Love. This. Book.
I was so surprised when I picked up this book. I got into it pretty quickly, and I fell in love with Josie quickly. She's a 17-year-old fat, queer, black girl. There is so much representation in this book, and I am so glad it will be out there for young people to read.
Josie is a high schooler who is also a journalist. She write movie reviews for magazines and freelances articles in her spare time when she is not working on school. Josie wins a contest to write a profile on Marius, a 19-year-old actor in movie about teens in a conversion camp. She quickly becomes friends with both Marius and Penny whoa are cast members of the movie. The three of them spend a lot of time together and become friends. In the course of writing the profile on Marius, Josie learns some disturbing things about the movie industry. She and Penny dig up some information that leads to a separate piece and embark on some investigative journalism.
This contest ends up changing Josie's life in so many ways. She blooms as a writer and as a person. Josie is a certified bad***, and I can't wait for more people to meet her!
I. Love. This. Book.
I was so surprised when I picked up this book. I got into it pretty quickly, and I fell in love with Josie quickly. She's a 17-year-old fat, queer, black girl. There is so much representation in this book, and I am so glad it will be out there for young people to read.
Josie is a high schooler who is also a journalist. She write movie reviews for magazines and freelances articles in her spare time when she is not working on school. Josie wins a contest to write a profile on Marius, a 19-year-old actor in movie about teens in a conversion camp. She quickly becomes friends with both Marius and Penny whoa are cast members of the movie. The three of them spend a lot of time together and become friends. In the course of writing the profile on Marius, Josie learns some disturbing things about the movie industry. She and Penny dig up some information that leads to a separate piece and embark on some investigative journalism.
This contest ends up changing Josie's life in so many ways. She blooms as a writer and as a person. Josie is a certified bad***, and I can't wait for more people to meet her!