Item: Look
Rating: 4.00
Author: kozbisa

by Alexandra Romanoff

"[For] readers of Nina LaCour . . . Sharply incisive [and] deeply romantic." --Booklist

"Part coming-of-age story, part slow-burn romance, part feminist-manifesto." --SLJ

"[One of] the LGBTQ books that will change the literary landscape." --O Magazine

What Lulu Shapiro's 5,000 Flash followers don't know:

The video of her with another girl was never supposed to go public.

Owen definitely wasn't supposed to break up with her because of it.

Behind the online persona Lulu painstakingly curates, her life feels like a terrible, uncertain mess.

Then Lulu meets Cass. Cass isn't interested in looking at Lulu's life, only in living in it for real. And The Hotel--a gorgeous space with an intriguing, Old Hollywood history--seems like the perfect hideaway for their deepening romance. But just because Lulu has stepped out of the spotlight doesn't mean it'll stop following her every move.

Look is about what you present vs. who you really are, about real and manufactured intimacy and the blurring of that line. It's a deceptively glamorous, utterly compelling, beautifully written, queer coming-of-age novel about falling in love and taking ownership of your own self--your whole self--in the age of social media.

"Romantic and deeply resonant...Everything I hoped for and more." --Robyn Schneider, author of The Beginning of Everything
"Witty, sensual, well-observed." --Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat
"I loved this book." --Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact
"A beautifully rendered...feminist coming-of-age story." --Jessica Morgan of Go Fug Yourself
"Gorgeous." --Robin Benway, author of Far From the Tree
"A complex, empathic examination of identity." --Amy Spalding, author of The Summer of Jordi Perez
"A beautiful, intimate novel. I loved it so much." --Maurene Goo, author of The Way You Make Me Feel
"Immediate...Deft...Astute...Compelling...Gripping and credible." --BCCB
"[Zan Romanoff] is one of the best YA writers working today."--Brandy Colbert, author of Little & Lion

An interesting look at coming of age under the scrutinizing eye of social media. Lulu knew how to play the game. She knew how to act, the answers to give, and her best angles for all her photos, but this was really a story about her peeling back the image she had created and figuring out who she was without the filter. I found her coming to terms with, and acknowledging, her bisexuality well done, and appreciated the feminism, that was woven into the story. Lulu was definitely a different person at the end of the book, and perhaps, this was the young woman she had been hiding the whole time.

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Look

by Alexandra Romanoff

Reviewed by Sam@WLABB on Jun 21, 2020

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