The Famoux by Kassandra Tate

Every year around Christmas time, we had (at least until this weird year) a charity event in The Netherlands: Serious Request. Organised by a radio station, and until a couple of years ago, the djs would - you might guess it, it's why I write about it in this review - live in a glass house for a while and do their radio thing there. The glass house was put up in a different city every year, and it was immensely popular. Obviously the Fishbowl during blackout immediately reminded me of that, making this book way more realistic than it otherwise would have been, triggering feelings of both excitement and discomfort.

I found Emilee a very relatable, realistic girl - as far as I can tell as a 35-year-old woman of course xD This book shows that there still are ways to turn the 'old YA-girl-trope' (a girl is the 'chosen one' to be in the spotlights, some romance etc.) into something different.

The book would have been better with less explaining at the start - without the 'what is where and how' it would still have been quite easy to tell how this world works, and the details were not needed to experience the story. Also, all those names and things ending in an -ex or -ix did remind me of Asterix and Obelix a bit ... but then again, I'm of the old generation who read those strips xD Overall these are only minor things though.

I received a free copy through Netgalley. My opinions are my own.