This book was one of my most anticipated releases of this year and I would say it was good not nothing groundbreaking but I am not mad that I read it. I’m being very nit-picky here – overall this was a really good book and an extremely impressive debut novel.

When their relationship starts to fall apart under all the pressure, Mel finds herself feeling alone with the impossible dilemma of the Little Bang growing inside her. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything. Influential" casts a strong and unrelenting light on the influencer industry, intersections of the mommy blogger/child influencer genre, beauty and teen use of social media.When I wasn’t reading it I was thinking about its characters, I loved it’s ability to tackle the societal issues (racism, sexualisation, alcoholism etc. It's really easy to scroll past one cancellation, one "internet drama" and then move on to the next thing that "Influential" really makes one sit with the uncomfortable reality that there are people at the other end of every like, post and hate comment. Sadly parents are pushing us towards it too in most cases with no concern regarding wants of the child at every level. The pressures of being pretty enough and happy enough and skinny enough are all too real for young women in this day and age, and the author does an amazing job of showing the true, horrifying effects of that on mental and physical health. Mel and Sid are determined to do this together, but they soon discover that pregnancy is totally different for boys and girls.

This book will appeal to all social media savvy students whose own lives inhabit the world of TikTok, Insta, YouTube et al. Almond is dealing with some serious mental health issues that are consistently pushed aside for the sake of appearances and brand reputation, and that stuff was well handled. Another thing that this book highlights which is a growing problem which has been on a news which is the absolute horror and violation that are deep fakes and I think it is actually a really scary and worrying and really post-modern day problem.

Influential” is a must-read for both social media enthusiasts and those interested in the impact of online fame on mental health. This book is did just proved all my feelings around family influences and all the problems that comes with exploiting and putting your children in dangers situation for fame and money and I just hate the whole things and it just think it something that can't be anything be morally wrong. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year.