Editing Emma Book Review
So this will be a short and sweet one, guys. I often just dash off my thoughts while I’m reading, so I end up with quick little reviews. Hope you enjoy 😀
Editing Emma By Chloe Seager
When sixteen-year-old Emma Nash is ‘ghosted’ by the love of her life Leon Naylor, she does what any normal teenage girl would do…
Emma spends the summer lurking in her bedroom, avoiding all human contact (and the shower), surrounded by the collection of chewit wrappers she saved from packs Leon gave her, back when he actually acknowledged her existence…
But seeing Leon suddenly ‘In a relationship’ on Facebook with the perfect Anna, spurs Emma into action and she embarks on a mission to make positive changes to her life (or ‘edits,’ if you will) and vows to use the internet for more than obsessively stalking Leon’s activities! Instead, she will use it for good and noble causes like finding someone who will actually be nice to her, and recording her findings for the rest of the world to see (i.e. BFF Steph and her mum) on her new Editing Emma blog.
But Emma soon discovers her ‘habit’ is harder to break than she first thought – turns out she’s not the only one ‘editing’ herself online (thank you Tinder for finding her mum’s profile, age 35, really?) and that life through an Instagram filter isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. But it could be worse, she could have outed her best friend, accidentally chatted up a 12 year old boy and revealed to the world why Leon Naylor is worth no girl’s time or virginity… oh no wait, that’s exactly what happened…
I was really hoping I’d like this book, since a friend lent it to me, and I think Chloe is totally awesome. But although there were moments when it did make me laugh, Editing Emma was just… a bit of a let down? It reminded me very strongly of The Princess Diaries books I read when I was about twelve [with a few more frank discussions about sex] so it came off as pretty immature, and much of the humour was in the same vein. Also, Emma was just a terrible person? She spends the whole book complaining about her break-up, and using guys and mistreating friends and family. Some of her friends and her mum are going through really big crises, and rather than being there for them, Emma just moans about her ex-boyfriend ghosting her, or her latest disastrous date [she ‘dates’ four guys over the book, so clearly she’s one of those Bella Swan ‘I’m so hideous’ people]. Eurgh. I finished it, if only because I owed it to my friend. Maybe if I was thirteen or something it would have been funnier, but it’s a firm no from me.
3.5/10 stars
