Die Figuren sind spannend, das Setting ist interessant und ich fand es spannend, Earthas Weg zur Online-Persönlichkeit nachzuverfolgen. in fact, i think i could have gone my entire life without being aware of this book's existence and been fine with it. you can't enter into a genuine good-faith dialogue about a text which is written off the back of a vapid instagram brand rather than any sort of literary merit or drive to tell a story. It’s a kind of rags-to-unexpected-riches-to-devastating-realisation-back-to-older-wiser-rags type tale, almost 18th century in progression, except set in a thoroughly modern, even slightly futuristic world where life online is even more all consuming than we know it now.

The storyline became repetitive and boring and I ended up completely skipping the last 40 pages because I couldn’t be bothered with Eartha and her flapping about. it really does feel like they came up with this description of the text through a random internet generator and then mashed together the bones of a narrative to fit around it, which, like, ok? these moments are exponentially more masturbatory than the scenes where eartha is once again talking about her vibrator, to the point where i had the overwhelming urge to eat my own spine.Ganz Wonderland (DIE Social-Media-Seite in Earthas Welt) hat dieses Video gesehen und plötzlich wird Eartha als die Stimme ihrer Generation gesehen. But I just felt like there were so many loose ends that needed tied up and brought to some kind of conclusion, I was just left feeling flat and wondering why I was so excited to begin with.

There are some “directors notes” which plays out more like a movie than a book (I listened on audiobook and finished with reading it - it worked well on audio but was confusing in the book). We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Her work confronts oppressive attitudes towards women and their bodies and she uses her platform to raise awareness of issues surrounding sexuality, consent and gender.

Die meisten Bezeichnungen sind im Englischen auch so schon genderneutral (zumindest meines Wissens nach), deswegen muss während der Übersetzung diese Entscheidung gefallen sein. In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly. I would also love for there to be more of an ending with Rose and Eartha but I guess that friendship has pretty much ended.