Book review: Girlcrush by Florence Given
Earlier this year I realised that most of the books on my TBR are serious in tone and/or topic, and I needed more fun reads to intersperse in-between. So when I had a day out with a friend in Bath and popped into Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, this paperback jumped out at me with its bright shiny red lips on the cover.
Girlcrush by Florence Given is a near-future novel about friendship, relationships, identity, social media and celebrity. And it’s very fun and easy to read while still being genuinely good.
It’s 2030 in a fictional British city and Eartha, an artist, has just realised that her long-term boyfriend is a cheating asshole and that she is bisexual. She makes a messy, drunk confessional video and posts it on Wonderland, the social app that everyone is plugged into obsessively, and it goes viral.
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