A brilliant book that uses an unusual presentation.

This is a very well written of a beautiful, smart but troubled girl with an equally troubled father., her friends and how her life was ruined by the gutter press. It covers her life from a fifteen year old until het 36th birthday. It follows her life as it moves through teenage model, party girl, successful business woman, and mother to a surprising conclusion that kept me guessing right to the end.
The story is told through social media posts, blogs and interviews for a Netflix documentary and a book which is a very modern mechanism that I had not come across berfore and is possibly unique to this book.
Some might find bits of the content disturbing..

I really loved the format of this book with a mix of interviews, transcripts and social media comments telling Melanie’s story from her rise to fame as a model to her disappearance which appears to be not the innocent taking time away from the public eye that it appeared to be. Everyone what their own take on things so whilst you could never be certain whose perspective was the truth you certainly got a feel for Melanie’s life and it really depicted how damaging both the media and social media can be. 9/10

The Ugly Truth a thriller which is told through a series of interviews, tweets and diary entries.
A thought provoking read.
My thanks to the publisher and netgalley for my copy.

The story follows Melanie, a beautiful and intelligent girl that was catapulted to fame at 15 years old and the ups and downs of the 2o years that followed.

A slightly similar concept to the movie “Searching”, the story is told through a series of interviews, tweets, transcript from a documentary and media reports. An interesting concept that, for me, just didn’t land (unlike the movie referenced, which I thoroughly recommend!). I’m not sure if it is because it was an advanced copy but the formatting was haphazard and it felt like a first revision. I hope this is proof read and addressed before release. There were some silly mistakes and headings missing that caused confusion. Take out the repetitive headings about the documentary transcripts and such and this is a relatively quick read.

Whilst this book failed to impress me, I think the message sent to readers about the power of their words on social media is an important one.