The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven

This book is told in first person narrative and it is told as if Izzy is writing about her life on her private blog so you can a very first-hand view into her story and you get a more informal tone as this is how 18 year old would write about her life.

This is a modern day feminist book that so many should read– to chant along with Izzy and to learn something. I was getting angry, I was getting disgusted and I was getting empowered. The book talks about being a woman in a modern day society very specifically to Izzy O’Neill’s experience but it reflects so much about our society and just so many of the things that Izzy goes through is so real and Steven was able to capture so much. The Exact Opposite of Okay is a story where we follow Izzy O’Neill who is an 18-year old student living her life just fine but then it all changes when a site brings up photos of her having sex with a Senator’s son and talks about all her sexual behaviour which obviously changes her life in more ways than one. But keeping her head up will take everything she has…” Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to start now. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal. Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Synopsis: “Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire. Sexism, slut-shaming, male gaze, sexual objectification, small bit of homophobia (not in a good light)

Genre: YA Contemporary, feminist, first in the series Trigger Warnings: Published: March 8th 2018 by Electric Monkey The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven I’ve got a review for ‘The Exact Opposite of Okay‘ and let me tell you now it is an extraordinary book that I loved and I can’t recommend it enough.