After learning about this, his reaction is to try and soak up more of the fame and interact less with her, which is a pretty halfhearted attempt. His ignorance is no excuse for not doing anything more than lifting his little pinkie finger to help her. Kyle ignores the problem for a large part of the book by saying (paraphrased) “I can’t even manage my own notifications, why would I check out Rachel’s?” He’s completely ignorant to her struggles until after multiple people tell him “Hey, maybe Rachel isn’t enjoying the attention…” and they act extraordinarily obvious in cajoling him into see all of the cruel things they’re saying to her. Which is the same thing he does to help Rachel and the shit-ton of hate she’s getting.
Girls send him hot pictures, he gets tons of positive attention, and he gets corporate offers too. On the other hand, Kyle is reaping the benefits from this fame–his followers zooming into the hundreds of thousands and being featured on The Laura Show (which is basically this book’s version of The Ellen Show).
The misogyny is strongly shown with all the hate Rachel receives from her peers and strangers. People from school and even people who don’t know her insult everything, from her hair to her body size to calling her derogatory names to even death threats. Rachel goes through a ton of harassment and bullying online for posting the picture. The plot was paced well and didn’t lag.īut I had such a huge problem with the fact that a lot of serious messages were glossed over or left unresolved. All of her characters were special and didn’t seem like carbon copies of someone else. Gagnon is a great writer, she creates unique voices for each of her characters and they’re both very real teenagers and could totally be someone you knew from school.
And I did get this, along with a side of fries, cupcakes, and burgers.īut there were parts about the plot that just nagged at me which I couldn’t let go. I came in looking for a cute contemporary romcom filled with fluff, blushes, and all sorts of sweet snippets. Based off of Alex from Target, #famous by Jilly Gagnon is a contemporary love story about a Rachel who takes an innocent picture of her crush Kyle when he’s working, posts it on ‘Flitter’ as a joke to her best friend, and then it goes viral.īut fame isn’t everything for both Rachel and Kyle’s side of the coin and they’ve got to learn to navigate the viciousness of other’s words and the pressure to be enough as they fall in love with each other.
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