An entertaining look at how dependent we can become on the Internet and live our lives virtualy, rather than in the real world. Our hero suffers from all sorts of Health issues and his doctor prescribes a digital detox. He has some amusing challenges along the way and made discoveries such as who knew Google Maps was such an essential item that we can no longer get anywhere without it! He starts Living in the real world and instead of following People, makes real Friends. He learns that our lives are improved by some of the apps and sites, but it is only an enhancement, not the complete deal. Makes you consider your own amount of screen time!

I enjoyed this book however it wasn’t my favourite out of all of this authors books. That being said it still made me laugh out loud in parts and I loved the characterisation. A 3.5 from me.

Andy Bellows is a techie maniac if such term even exist. Grocery shopping, traveling, sleeping and even his bowel movements is monitored by his phone. Plagued with insomnia, neckache and severe jaw twitching he thinks something is extremely wrong with it maybe cancer as suggested by Google again. His doctor agrees that something is wrong with him but it is not cancer. It is his addiction to technology which is self destructive.

Prescription: Stay away from online world for sixty days. But then is it possible? How do you order grocery? How do you travel somewhere without Uber or GMaps? How do you communicate with people? And what happens when online detox become the headline of a local newspaper and people starts follow and idolize Andy and seeks him for advice? Because if you don't know yet Andy Bellows doesn't like to talk people.


Review-

This book talks about a serious problem which is very much real but in a hilarious way. I could connect with Andy on so many levels. The way he was addicted to twitter, read news online, checking Instagram lives, idolizing someone on social media. Aren't we all the same?

Just thinking about not using my mobile for sixty days gave me goosebumps and anxiety! It just shows how real and true the plot of the story is.

I love the way how author has describe simple incidents which we don't even think about doing without internet and turning them into hilarious accidents. Even you feel it can happen with you anytime but Andy Bellows just take the crown for being funniest because of his inner monologue.

Andy Bellows is a very ordinary character a 30 year old man addicted to social media, can't talk to people in real life, lying to get out of confrontation. It can be you, me or anyone right? But what makes him stand out in the book is his clumsiness, his misfortune and his ability to accept his mistake and the will to overcome his fears.

Author even shows us the reality of social media. How we perceive things on internet and how much they are real in real life. How we give importance to certain inessential things.

We all are becoming way too dependent on internet and on our phones and if you want to know how deep troubling it is you have to read this book. But don't worry you will be laughing throughout the book. This book will make you aware about your usage of internet while you shed laughing tears.

Gah! What a fantastic take on our obsession with social mediums and being "connected:..I felt seen! Witty and painful truth with a heaping dose of humor.

Nick Spalding did it again! If you want the book that will make you laugh so much you pour juice through your nose. I recommend this book to anyone who needs a little happiness in their life.

I received a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

If you are searching for a book that will give a good and proper laugh, then look no further! After having read many sad and emotionally tense books this past month, this was a breath of fresh air and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it that I finished it in only two sittings. A big five star from me!

Logging Off by Nick Spalding
3.75/5
This was a wonderful read that had a commentary on social media, and technology as a whole. It was funny, adorable, and interesting all in one!
Andy Bellows is extremely connected to technology, and suffers from a few chronic diseases. Upon a visit to his doctor, he is diagnosed with technology addiction and recommended to go on a technology cleanse. There is hilarity that ensures, as well as some profound understanding of what living with technology is like.
I enjoyed the way that Spalding uses Andy’s inner thoughts and we get to see his blunt thought process throughout the novel. All in all, this was a great read commenting on finding the right balance of living life in the technological world. 
A huge thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for this e-book.

This was definitely not the store for me. I couldn't find anything about this story that captured my attention besides the feeling of being anxious from reading it or having to go back to it. Took me way longer to get to 56% of this book and so I didn't finish.

In this story we meet Andy, who literally lives his entire life online, he is a man obsessed with everything to do with the internet, he monitors his health and self diagnoses his minor ailments. When his doctor orders him to step away from his online life and to start engaging in real life, Andy takes the plunge but can be really step away from this current Self-destructive lifestyle.  
A funny and heartwarming read, which really makes you think about how much you are spending online. A great read

This is the story of Andy Bellows who is online for everything … Literally. There is nothing he does without checking online, from the weather to trains to what to eat. He follows influencers like they are the queen. But what Andy doesnt realise is that his whole world is about to change when he has to visit the doctor. Andy suffered with IBS and Neck pain and the doctor advised him it could be due to the amount of time spent on an electronic device. 

What follows is an hilarious account of Andy's life as he tries to live with no electronic devices - no maps on his phone… in fact no phone.. No technology at all. This book had me laughing out loud and wondering how we would all cope, especially when Andy has to go on a journey and gets lost! Andy has to use a paper map and this is totally alien to most people today, Andy does not fare well. 

The writing style is brilliant and not once did I know what was coming next. Nick portrays the characters so well and each one is loveable even when they are not what they should be. Bloody brilliant and I highly recommend this.

A brilliant novel that makes the modern reader think seriously about whether life would be better joining the off net cult or not... but it all feels too scary and analogue to so do.

I treated the book as it was intended, as a satire rather than a life guide and ended up happy and entertained by it.

Well worth your time reading it.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy for review. I have been trying for several months to get through this book. I've picked it up and put it back down and tried to return to it, and it just does not resonate with me. After about 1/2 of the book, I can see that the writing style instills the same sort of feeling of anxiety in the reader as the main character is experience, hence the reason for his digital detox. While I can definitely see the benefit of that in my own life, and appreciate the sentiment, the writing was just a little too much for me. Too much time spent on describing the bodily functions of the main character, and lingering in scenes a little too long, that I found myself longing for it to end and never found the humor. Despite the fact that we've all probably (and are) an Andy, or know one, I didn't get any sense of why I should care about him. He wasn't a very likable character and I could not find myself wanting to root for him enough to finish.

Im afraid I found this a hard book to finish. To be fair its not my usual genre but I have enjoyed Nicks books in the past. It was all a bit slow for me.

"All I can do at this point is follow my own advice, and live my own life. Make my own decisions. And remember to always think for myself, instead of letting other people - or the internet - do it for me."

Thank you Amazon Publishing UK and NetGalley for providing me with an e-arc in return for my honest feedback.

Suffering from Insomnia, Anxiety and Neckache, Andy Bellows is convinced that something is seriously wrong with him and his doctor agrees with him: Andy Bellows is diagnosed with a severe addiction to technology what's with the constant texting, tweeting, online-dating, online-gaming and giving up the control on his life to the tiny apps that reside in his gadgets. Now, he is forced into following the doctor's orders and step away from them.
Left to live his life as a neanderthal- constantly searching for food to engaging with normal people, Andy's about to discover how bewildering analogue world can be.
Until one day, his sixty-days detox hits the pages of the local newspaper, grabbing the attention of the other technophiles. Narrated through his POV, the story moves on to explore if Andy Bellows will be able to survive this detox, giving up the sense that has become nearly as important as the primal ones: technology.

'Logging Off' adds to its appeal of entertaining and relaxing prose: a relevant, humorous, satisfying and thought-provoking plot for today's era, well mastered into reaching high above the expectations and with the message to find a balance between the analogue & the technological world, presiding over all of our lives. This is every bit of that book that one can enjoy to their heart's content. The characters in the story are crafted to relate to every one of us and plays their role perfectly. Based on our dependency on technology, the humour in the book feels satirical and will make you LOL through the entirety of it. "It is funny because it is true" is the case when it comes to this book!

Spalding's writing style is catchy and light, making the worst of the situations soft and hilarious. There is just something so relaxing about this read and I give all the credit to Nick's writing style. Every page flip feels so smooth and captures you within its pages!

I enjoyed every bit of this story wholeheartedly and it is a quick, hilarious, light and a necessary read that everyone must check out!

Loved this book!  It's about a guy who is having health issues and he goes to the doctor and the doctor basically says to take a break from the internet.  So funny to read this at a time when I've been thinking that it's a great time to take a break from influencers and the like.  The story follows him as he literally navigates without google and has to talk to people and go shopping out in the wild.  It was great.  Finished in a day sitting in the sun on my patio and laughed out loud multiple times.  It has a great message.

Andy Bellows spends most of his day online in some capacity.  He is connected to the world through multiple social media accounts, and uses the internet to guide his way through everyday tasks such as dinner delivery, navigation, shopping, and staying in touch with his parents.  Andy also suffers from horrifying bouts of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and has recently been experiencing debilitating bouts of lockjaw and neck and upper arm pain.  After searching his symptoms online and receiving the news that his symptoms all (of course) indicate serious health concerns, he sees his family doctor who recommends a digital detox.  Andy is miserable enough to follow this advice and is surprised to realize how connected he was and much he has missed due to being hidden behind a screen.  

I loved the messages in this book:  the need for balance with devices, the need to understand that social media personas are not really who they appear to be, and how much "real" people are losing due to connectivity.  What grossed me out was the very descriptive passages of Andy's IBS episodes and his fixation with anything defecation related.  There were parts of this book I slogged through and other parts I recorded quotes from because I could completely relate to Andy's struggles and opinions of social media and the use technology.  I am going with a higher "star" rating because I think the messages need to be out there and I think someone looking for something completely "different" should consider this book.

Andy Bellows is in a terrible state. He can’t sleep, has horrible IBS and his jaw gets locked at the absolutely worst moments. He has anxiety and neck pain and just cannot figure out what to do. So off to his doctor he goes and there is nothing physically to blame - his doctor diagnoses a problem with his spending too much time connected to his electronics. The cure — a digital detox... a complete cessation of all use of electronics for two months. What happens after Andy’s appointment with the doctor is a humorous journey, through the analog world around Andy and the people he meets along the way. 

Logging Off is both an enjoyable piece of fiction about one man who spends too much time on-line, and a commentary on how our society’s is too tied into technology and social media and the effects this has on us all. 

Nick Spalding did an excellent job on this novel, tackling a topic we all need to think about... and perhaps make some changes our selves.

Such a fun book! Loved the way it was written- bright and interesting but also fun! What a brilliant, beautiful, feel-good, heartwarming book!

This was my first Nick Spalding book, and I really wanted to like this book. Because I found the premise so interesting and something I don’t usually pick up. I found the story a little underwhelming and I just couldn’t get behind the main character. Absolutely no shade to the author; I just think that I wasn’t the target audience for this: I just felt like the pacing was slow and by the time I got 50% to the book I was ready to never pick it up again. 

Thank you Netgalley & publisher for this opportunity.

I was excited to read about someone taking the plunge into life without electronics. It's something that a lot of people struggle with. Unfortunately, that sot lost amid a lot of juveniles humor. This one fell flat for me..