Girl Online

by Zoe Sugg

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Penguin Books Ltd (2015), 384 pages

Description

"Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love--and capturing every moment of it on her blog. But Noah has a secret, too, one that threatens to ruin Penny's cover--and her closest friendship--forever" --

User reviews

LibraryThing member AliceaP

If you race home, drop everything, and immediate dive back into a book it's a pretty safe bet that you're 'into it'. Girl Online is one of those young adult novels that sucks you right in and makes you fall in love with the characters right off the bat. Penny is a completely believable character.

This is an important point to make because in a lot of novels it's like the characters are too much if you get what I mean and it makes it difficult to put yourself in their place. It's not like that with Sugg's protagonist. I found myself alternately smiling from ear-to-ear and blinking back tears. It's exactly what being a teenager was like for me...except more English. lol The format of narrative interspersed with blog posts wasn't disruptive to the flow either which I appreciated. I predict that a lot of teenagers are going to be talking about this one (if they're not already). If I were you, teen, grownup, geriatric, android, I'd give this one a read. Oh and did I mention that Zoe is already working on a second book? I sure hope it's a sequel!!

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LibraryThing member Eloisef

This is a really good book for 10-16 as this book focuses on the online world ans what it is like and the troubles it can bring. This is a novel by Zoe sugg also known as Zoella. Zoe is and online blogger. I loved this book and would defiantly recomed it.

LibraryThing member VavaViolet

My daughter has been asking me to read this for quite some time, now I know why. It's more than a cute and sweet love story, it's also about family, friendships, being comfortable with who you are, facing your fears and being mindful of what you "add" to this world. The sequel is coming out in

November.

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LibraryThing member mrsdanaalbasha

Since last year, I've become obsessed with YouTube. So when I went book shopping and found that the author is actually a YouTuber I just had to buy it. I haven't started yet but the first pages kind of feel like Anna and the French Kiss.

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LibraryThing member Jessika.C

This was a run of the mill cutesy love story. Zoe Sugg is an awesome YouTube content creator and her vlogs are hilarious but book writing is probably not her thing,
Penny is your average cute klutz. She has anxiety issues and to overcome them or manage them better she starts a blog that racks up

over 10,000 people who want to read about her daily life. I read somewhere that this number was unrealistic but it's really not. I remember some years back when one of the blogs I followed was of this girl with cancer who just blogged about what she did. I remember there were very little entries about her treatments but of what she did with her time. I don't remember why I never caught up with the blog but I do recall there was a post about how she was going to start monetizing with ads because there were so many people clicking her posts and she would like the income. There are people with YouTube channels where all they talk about is their life and they have thousands of subscribers. Penny having 10,000 subscribers doesn't surprise me at all.
Anyway, fast forward and we meet her love interest who happens to have a girlfriend but they really like each other. It's a really clicheed story but it's cute and I did smile at some points more than others but it's not a book that changed my life. I'll admit I did skip about but it was a good distraction from a bad day.

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LibraryThing member SofiaReis

Surprisingly or not, I actually really liked it. I did rated the book a 3/5 stars, only because this book doesn't have a big story behind it and because this is not my favorite book genre. However I really liked how it turned out.

LibraryThing member karenvg3

Very cute story but the age of the characters bothered me a lot. This is not a story about a 15 year old.

LibraryThing member ilonita50

I received this book for an honest review, thank you.

I like the cover as it is promising of interesting teenage novel.
The main character is a girl ages 13-15, she goes to school, she has Facebook, she has crush on the boy from her school for ages, her long term girlfriend has become distant, so her

best friend has become a boy next door, Elliot, with whom she has a secret knock on the wall message code.

Her life starts to spin in different direction after starting to notice these weird panic attacks during several situations, she has also tried to write a secret blog as a place where to escape and only her best friend knows about it. The story goes for:
*betrayal from her long term best girlfriend, laughing out loud and trying mean ways of hurting her;
*her parents are taking her and Elliot to NY for a week ++ and that's where she finds her personality, she meets this "Brooklyn Boy" who's becoming her new instant crush;
*her life getting back to England is not exactly as it seems and she faces a big drama- involving distance relationship, as well as finding way out, with Elliot's help and her parents supportive attitude.

Its a funny, intriguing, sweet teenage romance novel as well, as it touches issues related to panic attacks, online life, Facebook, texting, best friend forever betrayal or how we grow apart, falling in love, having a friend whom you can rely to, facing total embarrassment in front of all school - and in the middle finding your new way out, leaving "friends" not worth behind.

I think this is a good story for teenage girls who are having some anxiety or have betrays from their best friends forever - a way to see that, perhaps, life is better without them.

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LibraryThing member HeatherLINC

I can understand why this book is so popular with the Yr 7s at our school and, on the whole, it was an okay read. However, I found the romance unbelievable. I don't know many eighteen-year-old boys who would go out, let alone fall in love, with a girl three years younger. Nevertheless, young teen

girls will love the romance.

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LibraryThing member HeatherLINC

I had no idea who Zoella was until I googled her, and while she may be a huge hit on YouTube, she is certainly no author. The writing was terrible, the characters shallow and the plot . . . ????? Couldn't finish it.

LibraryThing member ejlesny

Another one of those cutesy contemporarys that sort of takes a spin with talking about the aspect of anxiety. A good love story.

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