I received this book from the publisher (Mad Cave Studio/Maverick) on Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I was very curious about this book when I saw it on Netgalley. A graphic novel about teens who are done with their social media parents and the fact everything they do will go online? Very now and very much interesting to me. However I hadn’t expected I would get so emotionally invested in these characters. I definitely cried while reading this one and I couldn’t stop reading.

In this one we first meet a girl named Daisy. Daisy loves making music (she wants to go far with that and I love seeing her practice, create songs, and more). Daisy is looking forward to high school. However, she is not looking forward to her mom photographing, filming, posting content about it. Or anything. Her mom has been sharing all about her life since she was just 6 weeks old. Everything from baby steps to foods to going to school is documented. And Daisy is done. She already has made it that less content is made, but she also worries about her younger brother (who is now still at the age that he likes it, but does he really know the consequences?). We see her struggle through things and things are escalated when her mom outs her online. My heart broke for Daisy. She hasn’t even had the chance to explore. To think more about it. Her mom just yeeted it online. I just wanted to step into the story and slap the mom and hug Daisy. Holy crap, imagine doing that to your daughter. To go that far for content. I was pissed. I was livid.

Thankfully, Daisy gets an invite to the Not Your Baby Anymore group filled with teens like her. And so the books shifts from just Daisy to the other kids. Daisy is still the MC and she gets the most screentime, but we also follow and learn about several of the group. From Casper whose parents exploited his Celiac. Or Sasha who is constantly dragged to theme parks even if she wants to just have a normal life with school, friends, sleepovers. Or how Byron almost lost his parents since they are daredevil content creators who let their son film them as they do terrifying stunts. And this wasn’t the first time they almost died/got injured. I really liked that the author didn’t just focus on Daisy but instead also showed us a few other teens and what they are going through.

And then comes the biggest thing. Sasha who was in France with her parents learns about a social media law that protects kids. You cannot photograph or make content if your kids say no. However there is nothing like that in the US. Nothing at all through the country. And so a big focus of the book becomes the teens trying to group together and make something happen. I love that Daisy’s best friend Shane’s (who was such a fun character and I love how supportive they are of Daisy) mom could help them out as that is her job, and I love seeing the teens try their best to get things done. From checking representatives (who were mostly assholes) to going to congress to more. It wasn’t an easy road and we can see that some got a bit meh about it, but still they kept going. I got more and more emotionally invested for the group to get this bill to pass. They had worked so hard on it, they were so driven, I just wanted it to work out for them. And not just for them but for their siblings, for future kids.

In the meantime we see relationships form, various teens make big plans outside of the bill but to better their lives, I loved seeing them meet up and become even bigger friends than they were online. It was so fun to see!

Throughout the book I just wanted to shake the parents. Well OK, not Shane’s (his parents are normal), but all the other parents, heck yes. How for instance Daisy’s mom said that she is glad she didn’t grow up with social media which made me just go like WTF. Or how Sasha’s parents think she should be happy. Or how Casper’s parents think they did it all for him and he should be grateful. Like hello. Your kids tell you they are unhappy and you just don’t care?

The ending was just wonderful, I am really happy with how it all ended. I won’t tell you how or what, you need to read the ending, but I can tell you I was happy and crying. It was just perfect.

I really enjoyed the art! The style was a lot of fun and I liked the character designs, each character sparkles (even the side cast).

All in all, if you want an emotional ride of a book I would highly recommend this book to all! Be sure to check it out!