is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255. This Is Not the Jess Show By: Anna Carey Narrated by: Suzy Jackson Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins Release date: 02-02-21 Language: English 63 ratings Regular price: 23.

Foreword Reviews only recommends books that we love. No fee was paid by the publisher for this review. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. The fun novel This is Not the Jess Show goes deep in exploring how people live their lives and create their own realities-sometimes at a cost.ĭisclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. Jess is forced to grapple with all of these concerns, just as everything she knows falls apart. When it comes to everyday life, what people value as authentic is questioned. The novel illustrates the perils of influencer culture and social media, probing how far people are willing to go to be a star, what stardom means, and what’s reality versus what’s staged. Authentic nineties discussions propel the story, with references to 90210, Jewel, and Dave Matthews contributing. How the pieces fit together is always in question. Jess is alone as a fully fleshed out character-and for good reason. The plot twist is major, and the cast is less developed before it. The eventual explanation for the anomalies forces her to make a life-changing decision. Still, the device is only one of many instances of Jess noticing something not quite right.

Her friend is fast to make an excuse-that she took the device from her dad, who works in tech-and put the object away. Jess lives in 1998, but one day, a small, rectangular metal device with an apple logo on it falls out of her friend’s backpack. In between the story’s expressions of 1990s nostalgia: something is amiss. But there are unsettling events, too: Jess hears a chorus of chants in the morning, her dog has been replaced with a lookalike, and she’s starting to notice that her sister and friends are acting weird. Anna Carey’s young adult novel This is Not the Jess Show starts in a familiar fashion, with a teenager in the suburbs dealing with drama.

This is not the jess show by anna carey