![]() ![]() ![]() There’s also real sympathy for Torrey in her naked need to strategize for social success and her genuine bereavement, complicated by her realization of how little she appreciated her sister. ![]() Cooner capably crafts the narration of a girl who’s tied her identity to appearances and has lost any conception of herself other than as a vlogger relating to her audience (“How exactly am I supposed to talk about ribbed thigh-high socks in an engaging bubbly voice now that everyone knows my sister is dead?”), and she writes knowledgeably about YouTube culture of haul videos and haters. At the same time, Torrey is coming to grips with her grief and her guilt (she was a mean and excluding older sister, and her last exchange with Miranda was a pitched battle), a process that’s helped by her growing friendship with Luis, a handsome classmate who works at the local funeral home. Now she and her parents have moved to be near family in Texas, and Torrey has to find her way in a new school where her star status and clothes savvy aren’t an asset but a threat. Torrey’s perfect life as carefree teen and massively popular beauty vlogger Beautystarz15 came to an end when her little sister, Miranda, was killed by a drunk driver. ![]()
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