Get Hold Of Fake Illustrated By Donna Cooner Shared As Booklet

would like to thank the Netgalley website and the Hachette Romans editions for allowing me to read this book,

It features the pretty Maisie who, as for many teenagers, is going through hell in high school, Especially since her classmates only remind her that she is fat, She then takes refuge in drawing and comics, her passion, Until the day the chemistry teacher asks her to sit next to Jess, the most popular guy in school, she decides to create a fake profile on the most popular social network in school, a kind of revenge.
Will she succeed in not being found out

A book read in one go, so much so that I hung on to the story, so moving in some parts, addictive, captivating, full of suspense and twists and turns with very endearing characters.


I love the author's writing and look forward to reading more of her books, I really want to say that I loved this book, because I think the story was really creative and engaging, but I did have a hard time with some things that just prevented me from LOVING it.


First of all, personally, I didnt find the main character, Maisie, to be very likeable, as she was very sad and mopey and just didnt like anyone.
I understand that that is the whole point of her character, but I needed to have something a little more to be able to relate to her more, or like her more.
There were a lot of times when I feel like she was kind of mean for no reason, and that kind of kept me from really having a connection with her.


Second of all, something that really bothered me was the involvement of Maisies sister, Veronica, and her involvement in this book, Maisie kept saying that she really loved her sister, and that she really missed her and such, but I feel like that character was not involved enough in the book.
Veronica was built up in the first half to be this really great big sister who moved away, but in my opinion, she was kind of unnecessary, because she didnt even end up doing anything important in this book.
Maisie tried calling her a couple times in the first half, but then she pretty much just forgot about her for the rest of the book, I feel like that character could have been put into the story much l better than it was, maybe giving Maisie a pep talk or something when she felt down.
Veronica was kind of left to blow away in the wind, you know what I mean

Now, other that throws things and some minor others, I really did like the idea and story of this book and found it very engaging.
I loved the suspense of Maisies catfish getting jogger and higher, and Ireally liked the ending, I would recommend this book to people, because it has a valuable lesson and is suspenseful, but it wasnt my favourite book, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm so glad social media wasn't really a thing back when I was growing up, By the time I graduated high school, most people were just starting to realize there was more to the internet than Prodigy chat rooms and AOL, As if the teenage years weren't tough enough, it seems like adding social media to the mix is presenting a whole new set of challenges for kids today,

Maisie Fernandez is sick of being picked on by the kids at school for her looks, It's not fun being made fun of for your weight all the time, She decides to get even and creates a fake social media profile, She sees a photo of some random beautiful, skinny girl online, names her Sienna, and starts posing as her online, It's all good because this girl lives in some other town and it's not like she would ever find out, right While pretending to be Sienna, Maisie is able to chat online with the kids at school who taunt her.
Basically she is catfishing. It seems like they all like this "Sienna" and Maisie starts developing some confidence of her own, But this charade can only last so long and big surprise, Maisie is soon going to meet the real life Sienna, the girl whose photos Maisie has been using.
Uh oh, what's going to happen if everyone finds out what Maisie has been up to

If you were one of the lucky few who got out of high

school with only positive memories, congrats! For most of us though, those teenage years were not all sunshine and rainbows.
And that's what I liked about this book as it showed life isn't a picnic for most kids during their school years, It doesn't much matter whether you were popular or not, we were all just struggling to get thru it, weren't we And that's why I think this story will resonate with most readers.
There's something for everyone to take away from the story,

Is the story predictable Well yes, I'm sure most readers can see early on which direction the story is going in, However, don't let that stop you from reading it as there are truly some good messages within the story, It doesn't matter what age you are, it's always good to be reminded every now and again that it's important to be comfortable in your own skin, When you have selfconfidence, the sky's the limit!

I won a free advance reader's copy in a giveaway by IreadYA but was under no obligation to post a review.
All views expressed are my honest opinion,STARS

Maisie, an overweight, bullied high school student, catfishes her bullies with a photo of a family friend, When Claire possibly transferring to the school, unaware her picture is used as Sienna online, Maisie scrambles for a solution,

FAKE reads like an adult set down to write a story for teenagers about bullying and body positivity to send an Important Message to readers, The characters come straight out of central casting: pretty, popular people who range from unkind to bullies and supercool, misunderstood underdogs/bullying victims,

Maisies body positivity is a great example for everyone, except since she mentioned so often, telling rather than showing, I wondered how okay she was with herself.


FAKE was predictable and unoriginal with characters that seemed like characters instead of people, Im gonna give this book the benefit of the doubt, because Ill admit it got a lot better as it went on, But I didnt like how all Maisie did was complain about her looks, her body, and people at school, instead of doing something about it, And then she catfishes the most popular guy in her school Like, no, For some reason it really pissed me off that Maisie spent all this time pretending to be someone shes not, meanwhile playing with Jesses, Claires, and Dezereas feelings, And then like she had the audacity to bring up what Jesse did wrong When you apologize you apologize for what you did, dont pin the blame on the other person.
Also, the whole thing with like the popular kids/jocks and the non popular kids/nerds made me realize how divided schools really are and the people in them, especially high school.
With that being said, it just seemed kind of cliche that in the end Jesse had always liked Maisie and Dezerea ended up being super nice when Maisie despised them for most of her life It just didnt seem realistic at all, but maybe thats just me.
I did really like how this book ended though, It was nice to see how you dont ever really know whats going on in someones head and everyone has their own crap that they have to go through.
I do wish, however, that Maisie and Claires relationship ended on a better note, but oh well, I mean not everything always works out in the end, I think Ill give this book astar rating because Ive given other books that rating and feel that this one was a bit better than others But I dont know, maybe Im just being too nice.
Sorry this review was so long and ranty! Une histoire de mal être assez originale qui traite de la difficulté de s'accepter de Maisie et ne diabolise pas forcément les réseaux sociaux.
En effet, à l'abri derrière son identité de Sienna, Maisie discute enfin avec ses camarades et finit par découvrir que ceux qu'elle déteste/envie tellement ont eux aussi des problèmes.
. . J'ai bien aimé le fait qu'au final, c'était plus Maisie qui se rejetait ellemême plutôt que les autres qui le faisaient, Le personnage de Jesse est craquant et là on est désolé pour Maisie qu'elle se soit sabordée ainsi, Le côté bande dessinée a permis d'illustrer l'évolution de Maisie et j'aime bien la manière dont à la fin, elle réussit enfin à se dessiner et donc à s'accepter.
Bon, certes les victimes de Maisie prennent un peu trop bien les choses selon moi mais au final, le livre est bien construit



Ce que j'aime : pour le coup, les réseaux ne sont pas diabolisés même si on montre bien qu'on peut usurper facilement un identité, la manière dont Maisie apprend à s'accepter, le personnage de Jesse



Ce que j'aime moins : les personnages pardonnent trop facilement à Maisie, pas crédible



Pour résumer



Un livre intéressant qui traite de l'acceptation de soi et de sa nécessité pour être accepté par les autres



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