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Macy Evans dreams of becoming a social media star with her feminist ’80s and ’90s movie reviews—until she finds herself in the wrong spotlight. Life isn’t easy for Macy and her single waitress mom, who struggle to get by. Macy works at a video rental shop along with her best friend, Elise, and Paxton, a boy with a soft smile and sad past. Meanwhile, she puts her heart into her YouTube channel, hoping that it will someday generate enough income for her to get out of her dead-end town. When someone posts pictures on Twitter of her and the hunky boy who sat next to her at a Kansas City Royals baseball game with a comment insinuating that something happened between them, Macy suddenly becomes internet-famous and the object of shaming comments and real-life stalkers. Her YouTube views, however, are through the roof. Can she leverage her newfound fame? Is compromising her values for followers worth jeopardizing her friendships and something more profound with Paxton? Hartl adds an interesting perspective to the canon of internet-ruins-everything stories, with gentle and respectful treatment of the very real hardships and humanity behind the all-consuming race for clicks. The resolution is a bit pat, but at least everyone gets a happy ending. Most characters default to white; Elise is Latinx and queer. A touching and very human perspective on internet infamy: Click on this one. (Fiction. 14-18) Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Macy Evans dreams of becoming a social media star with her feminist 80s and 90s movie reviewsuntil she finds herself in the wrong spotlight.Life isnt easy for Macy and her single waitress mom, who struggle to get by. Macy works at a video rental shop along with her best friend, Elise, and Paxton, a boy with a soft smile and sad past. Meanwhile, she puts her heart into her YouTube channel, hoping that it will someday generate enough income for her to get out of her dead-end town. When someone posts pictures on Twitter of her and the hunky boy who sat next to her at a Kansas City Royals baseball game with a comment insinuating that something happened between them, Macy suddenly becomes internet-famous and the object of shaming comments and real-life stalkers. Her YouTube views, however, are through the roof. Can she leverage her newfound fame? Is compromising her values for followers worth jeopardizing her friendships and something more profound with Paxton? Hartl adds an interesting perspective to the canon of internet-ruins-everything stories, with gentle and respectful treatment of the very real hardships and humanity behind the all-consuming race for clicks. The resolution is a bit pat, but at least everyone gets a happy ending. Most characters default to white; Elise is Latinx and queer.A touching and very human perspective on internet infamy: Click on this one. (Fiction. 14-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.