The breakup leads to her bisexual awakening and new-found Internet fame after a drunk video of her, listing Matt’s wrongdoings and coming out as bi, goes viral.

In Given’s debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonder Land, a social media app where people project their dream selves online. moving on from the terrible bisexual representation i once again wanna talk about the scene where eartha is at a gay club using british slang, asking for a fag and some queer women tells her that she’s right there and then the narrative puts emphasis on the fact that she’s butch and therefore can reclaim the f slur for gay men. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. She grew up in Plymouth and attended London College of Fashion for one year, leaving to pursue art and writing.Man muss in einer bestimmten Stimmung sein, um dieses Buch zu mögen, ich hatte aber das Glück, dieses Buch in genau dem richtigen Moment gefunden zu haben. The heart of it is social media and it’s effects, with her bisexual awakening tacked on as a side story. But her entire attitude feels like those comments from women I see online where it’s like yeah, I’m bi, so I, unfortunately, like guys too. also, given's writing style is very clunky, so much so that i am wondering how this was published in the 1st place (editor, where art thou?

It isn't well written, I didn't connect with any of the characters, and the story felt rushed and at times like there was no coherent plot. the fact that both of these plot lines co-exist in this book is so fucking laughable i can tell that nobody took the time of the day to read the first draft of this twice. That been said, least I managed to finish this one, never managed to finish WDOYP as I didn't rate it.To be fair, I think it’s really hard to get any kind of literature about social media or cancel culture tonally right (and I’d credit Patricia Lockwood’s novel No One Is Talking About This and Porpentine’s longform essay Hot Allostatic Load as the only examples that I think truly work). I’m sure Florence would say that sentiments like these are exactly what she’s talking about in the overarching message of the book but like, I’m sorry, you had the makings of a book handed to you on a silver platter and you still managed to make it an unbearably frustrating (for all the wrong reasons) read. 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 feel like this moment perfectly encapsulates everything that is so uniquely terrible about Girlcrush. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. To me, there’s no comedy in this book, even dark comedy; it’s actually quite a hard and painful reality it depicts, especially in the second half of it. 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.I felt like it was trying too hard to be relevant and had the basis of a great storyline but just didn't quite get there. we get a not-so-provocative plot line revolving around gender and sexuality: Our narrator and protagonist Eartha dumps her unfaithful boyfriend and finally lives out her bisexuality, which becomes her shtick on the internet, a narrative to generate entertainment and thus income. This not only hurts queer people who pick it up, making them feel invalidated and ridiculed… it also confirms that all the stereotypes about us in the queer community are correct…… it doesn’t help cis het people understand us at all.