best book i've read in a long time. might become my 2020 favorite. it was fascinating as well as entertaining, eerie and dark but also fun. i can see that it might not be for everyone but i personally loved every second of it. the vision of the future it presents seems logical. so logical that it's a little frightening, even! while reading/listening to this (yes i listened to the audiobook and loved it so much that i had to buy a copy) i could connect our current social media landscape with the images megan angelo paints of the future. i'm a bit too into social media myself, following many people i've never met, feeling connected to them in a way that's hard to describe - and i guess many others feel the same way. this book...it just hit me. something else i absolutely loved was the way female friendship and mother-daughter relationships were depicted. it's something i enjoy in general (of course) but it was a little different in this one. there were a few more grey areas that the characters inhabited, a few more twists, but, ultimately, so much love and... i guess realness? also, this novel has such a clever structure. the two connected stories and the connections between the characters, the way it all tied up, the slower introductory parts and the ending just wow!! so great! i loved the ending especially. i guessed that orla was marlow's mother all along but it didn't change my enjoyment of this story at all. in general, this novel just felt so fresh. it was unlike anything i'd read before even though some ideas about fame or apocalyptic scenarios or character journeys are similar in other pieces of media, the combination of them in this book is very special to me. all those worlds that we get to see, as scary as they might be, are so well written. i love this book and can also really recommend the audiobook!