This is Not the Jess Show | Review

This Is Not the Jess Show Published by Quirk Books by Anna Carey
Series: This Is Not the Jess Show #1
on February 2, 2021
Genres: Contemporary, Dystopian, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, YA
Pages: 304
Source: Netgalley
Format: ARC, eBook
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ISBN: 1683691970
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Like many teens, sometimes it feels as though everything in Jess Flynn's life has been engineered for maximum drama--from her performance at the school talent show, to the reappearance of her childhood best friend and perennial crush Jeremy, to her friends trying to set her up with one of the hottest guys in school. It's almost as if everything might finally be going her way...until one day a tiny black phone with an apple logo on its screen falls out of her best friend's backpack and lands at Jess's feet.
The problem is, it's 1998, and the first iPhone isn't due out for another nine years.
Jess's friends refuse to acknowledge the strange device. Her sister Sara, on hospice care with a terminal blood disease, for once can't tell Jess what she should do. It's almost as if everyone is hiding something from her. Even her beloved dog Fuller seems different...like, literally different, because he definitely didn't have that same pattern of spots on his stomach last week...
Nothing in Jess Flynn's world is as it seems, and as the cracks begin to show, Jess will discover her entire life is nothing more than someone else's entertainment. Except in this reality, the outside world is no place anyone would want to escape to.

This one started off a little bit slow for me… However, it didn’t take long for the story to pick up and I became ENTHRALLED.

Jess lives in 1998–she’s a teenager. And that’s one of the things I loved about it–I was a teenager in 1998. So, of course, I was quickly feeling nostalgic–which is always a plus for me.

So Jess, goes about life until things start getting strange. She hears things…her friends aren’t being normal… And so, of course, this is about where I just couldn’t put the book down.

To avoid spoilers, I won’t say much else–except–This book was pretty spectacular. I’ve been having a bit of trouble with the young adult genre lately, but this one exceeded all my expectations and more!

 

 

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