This Is Not the Jess Show

The YA version of ‘The Truman Show'. If you've seen this movie back in the day then you can just imagine the concept of this book.

You follow Jess Flynn, a teen girl in her junior year of high school. As her days pass by she slowly start hearing and seeing things that seem odd and doesn't make sense. She begin to feel concerned and afraid as if she can't tell the difference between truth and reality. With her social life starting to go awry with her overprotective “parents”, her very “sick” sister, and everything around fake and unreal; she focuses her “best friend/crush” Ty to tell her everything, the whole truth. Thats when things start falling into place for Jess and her decision on what to do next about this new reality.

The first 40% of the book feels like it takes a little long to get into the story but as soon as Jess finds out the truth the story starts to really get interesting.

One thing I did love was the 90s nostalgia. It was fun reading about everything we loved as a teenage girl in the nineties..... awww Scott Wolf ::swoon::

You will definitely enjoy the characters, intriguing storyline with the right amount of twists and turns but like I mentioned before if you've seen ‘The Truman Show' then you'll know what to expect (The teen version).

Please keep in mind that the conclusion of the story will be in the next book ‘This Is Not the Real World'. 


Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I just realised that Jess is literally the main character.
This was a surprisingly good book! I mean, sure, the synopsis is very misleading and the big twist, while quite unpredictable, requires a great suspension of beliefs; but I still really enjoyed it. This book was a wild ride from start to finish and took a completely different direction than what I was expecting. The romance was really ~unexpected~ and cute. I think I speak for everyone when I say that this just turned one of our biggest what-ifs into reality. Like I said, this book is not very realistic as this would never happen in real life but, sometimes, that's exactly why we read fiction. Overall, this was a really fun read and I would totally recommend it!!!

I just realised that Jess is literally the main character.
This was a surprisingly good book! I mean, sure, the synopsis is very misleading and the big twist, while quite unpredictable, requires a great suspension of beliefs; but I still really enjoyed it. This book was a wild ride from start to finish and took a completely different direction than what I was expecting. The romance was really ~unexpected~ and cute. I think I speak for everyone when I say that this just turned one of our biggest what-ifs into reality. Like I said, this book is not very realistic as this would never happen in real life but, sometimes, that's exactly why we read fiction. Overall, this was a really fun read and I would totally recommend it!!!