It can’t get any worse, until the father of the classmate Izzy hooked up with takes the story national and soon Izzy finds out how much worse it can get. The author of the website knows details about Izzy no one could possibly know but it’s the pictures now out in the world, intimate photos of Izzy and of her hooking up with one of her classmates, that everyone has seen that have Izzy struggling to keep her head above the water. Like I’m being forced to grow up too fast. And in that heart-dropping second, I know he’s seen the photo too. There were plenty of hilarious ‘author’s notes’ from Izzy but it’s her voice in the posts at the time of the scandal that really stood out as I was reading.Īnd then, slowly, deliberately, his eyes run up and down my body. The Exact Opposite of Okay is a story told in the format of blog posts Izzy wrote as the events of this book unfolded which she is now (at some point in the future) looking back on. I loved Izzy’s character from the very first page of this book, her sense of humour and her blunt way of speaking had me hooked. Her life is good, until someone creates the website ‘Izzy O’Neill: World Class Whore’, and suddenly Izzy is the most talked about girl at her school for all the wrong reasons. An aspiring screenwriter with a sharp tongue and a sarcastic biting sense of humour she’s trying to work out what she wants to do when she heads to college, like the rest of her school mates. Izzy is a normal student and her problems are the usual ones. It takes me several attempts to type out my response. I might put on a tough exterior, but…nobody likes to be hated. It in no way affects my views on The Exact Opposite of Okay. I received an ARC of this book free from Electric Monkey.
But keeping her head up will take everything she has… Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to start now. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal.
Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire.
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