The Bright Side of Going Dark by Kelly Harms

In this novel we're mostly dealing with Mia, a social media influencer and Paige, who is working for the same social media platform as one of the online quality ensurance agents looking through flagged comments.

Mia is extremely shallow, judging and extremely obsessed with her social media presence in the beginning of the book. Paradoxically she says she wishes her followers wouldn't place so much importance on her posts, but in reality she does care.

From there we follow Mia and Paige working through their issues and their paths cross, well kept secrets are coming out in the open and buried memories come to light.

Kelly Harms did a fantastic job of portraying both characters and problems that arise with our modern day consumption of social media and the "discontent that content online can create" and rising mental health issues in teens and young adults.

I loved Mia's mother a lot and she was by far my favorite character in the story.

Content warning for suicide, mental health problems, panic attacks and death of a pet (man, I cried reading this particular scene).

Altogether an extremely important book with plenty to discuss.

Thank you Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for providing me with the eARC. 

The Bright Side of Going Dark by Kelly Harms is available now.