I can absolutely see why some readers would adore this book, as I had heard from many, but it just wasn't for me. I appreciate the very timely storyline of social media and Siri in the book but I found it overall to be a little too much fluff and not enough of a meaningful story. Still, it was somewhat entertaining.

If you only had your social media posts to represent your life, how accurate would that be? Mia wakes up in the hospital with no memory. All she has is her phone. Luckily it has face recognition and not a password to unlock it. She finds out her name. She starts looking at her social media posts and emails to put the pieces together, or so she thinks. Follow Mia as she unravels who she is and what she’s done. A (social media) picture is worth a 1000 words, but are those words the truth?

ALRIGHT, SO… I don’t love tropes being a central plot point in a book… but in this case it really works! The whole memory loss thing is very different from what you would expect and overall this book became a light, fluffy, read while also having an undertone of a mystery novel! Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got Amnesia and had to rely on your phone to tell you who you are? This novel perfectly explains the outcome of just that instance. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and would definitely recommend it to others!

Siri, Who Am I? is a really fun about a girl who completely forgets who she is and needs to use her phone to put the pieces back together. I really enjoyed this one. The characters were really well written and the plot kept me interested. I thought the writing was also really well done. I would love to read more from this author!

It’s a compelling, well-written story, and I definitely always want to know what’s going to happen next, but Mia’s stubborn naïveté and reckless foolishness when refiguring our her life—her refusal to consider any possibilities other than the first one that pops into her head, which is always glamorous & very flattering to herself, is incredibly frustrating and definitely gave me some secondhand embarrassment.
The chemistry & development of the relationship between Mia & Max is lovely, although at first you do sort of wonder why he’d want to spend any time with someone so cluelessly self-involved. But he seems like a compassionate person, so helping her find her identity & get her life back is a reasonable way to keep them together until they’ve bonded. And the other relationships—friendships, potential partners, parents, rivals, enemies, clients—feel equally real, even when Mia is just faking them. (Perhaps that’s why they feel real? Because we’re figuring them out as she does? Either way, it works.)
It was also nice that taking selfies wasn’t treated like a flaw in and of itself—the way Mia glossed them up & used them to create a fake life was shown to be problematic, but I loved seeing her tell Max that he’s not better than her just because he doesn’t take pictures of himself.
Overall, definitely a fun read that I kept wanting to come back to throughout the day.

This book left me giggling from start to finish. It’s fun, and absurd, and everything that is wrong (or right) with social media. It’s almost like The Hangover, as Mia must piece together everything that happened after a head injury: who is she? Where does she live? And she has to do it all using her own social media.

There are some inherent flaws with this book. Like my phone has all my information, addresses, and contacts synced to the cloud. For some reason she is savvy enough to create an app, but not savvy enough to know how to connect to her apple cloud account to get this info? While the “only using Instagram” motivation is very entertaining, it’s pretty weak sauce when you consider how much information is truly available to us, especially if it’s your thumbprint accessing your phone.

Nevertheless, I did really like the main character and wanted to see her find the truth in herself, no matter how she did it.


You can see my video review here:
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"Siri, Who Am I?" tells the story of a millennial, Mia, who wakes up in the hospital and has no idea who she is. The doctors tell her she has short-term amnesia (which explains why she doesn't even know her name). Thankful for her phone, social media, and Siri, Mia begins her journey to find herself...literally.

After reading the synopsis, I was really excited about what I had hoped to be a fun, cheeky book. Even though this book definitely had its humorous and laugh-out-loud moments (and plenty of hilarious references to the life of millennials), unfortunately, I just could not get into it.

I felt Mia was overdramatic and quite honestly, very annoying. I felt none of the characters had much common sense. It was definitely a female power-driven book, which the feminist in me loved, however, the men in the book were just so desperate and whiney.

I felt this was a slightly missed opportunity with what could have been a really great book.

Thank you, NetGalley for this gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.

Certainly not a book for me. Perhaps for much younger readers. It seems like a YA novel, not for adults.

Thank you Netgalley, but this was a tough read for me.

Kinda strange story. Not sure if I like the book enough to recommend or even pass on a copy to a friend. Too strange & unbelievable story line. I wasn’t entertained. Became bored but did finish hoping for something to catch my interest. Skip this book.

DNF. Footnote side bars were distracting. Did not add anything of value to the already repetitive narrative. Premise seemed like a good read, but it quickly turned out to be that I didn't care what happened to Mia or why.

I really felt like the main character's issue could have been solved if she had decided to tell more people about her memory loss. There were some funny parts in the book, and I want to give the author credit for that! I just felt like the story was very unrealistic, and the ending was very lackluster for me.

What I liked best about Siri, Who Am I? is that it’s so different from anything else I’ve read. I loved the concept of a woman who wakes in a hospital with amnesia and uses her smartphone to rediscover who she is.

The main character, Mia, wasn’t always the most likable person, but I felt fond of her anyhow. She’s like that one wayward friend you are always shaking your head at, but she means well. Mia is impulsive and sometimes shows poor judgment, but she’s just had a traumatic brain injury, so I think we should cut her some slack.

While I didn’t agree with some of Mia’s choices, I enjoyed watching her solve the mystery of who she is and how she ended up in the hospital. That aspect of the story required some suspension of disbelief at times, but I was enjoying it enough to just go with it.

The story includes a bit of a love triangle, which I’m usually not fond of, but in this case, I felt like it was handled well. None of the characters in this book are without their flaws, but I thought each was likeable in their own way, with the exception of one character who is clearly portrayed as not a good person.

I would classify this as a cute chick-lit romp and recommend it if you’re looking for a light, entertaining read.

Thanks to Quirk Books for providing me with an ARC through NetGalley, which I volunteered to review.

I enjoyed this book! It has a really neat technological twist but still has all the fittings of a warm romantic comedy! I would definitely recommend checking this out if you enjoy this type of genre.

Imagine waking up in a hospital with amnesia—not knowing even your own name. That's what happens to Mia. When she is discharged from the hospital, her only option is to start piecing together clues, starting with her shattered smartphone. But after it becomes clear that Mia wasn’t a particularly kind or ethical person, She needs to decide if she can summon the courage to change.

This was a light fun read, perfect for grabbing when you have a spare half hour or whilst sat on/waiting for public transport.
As what I would suspect is the target audience (a Millennial female who spends a lot o her time on social media and her phone), I could definitely resonate with Mia and this kept me engaged and excited to read more.
It had a really strong start but started to get somewhat predictable as it went on and probably from about halfway onward. But it was still an enjoyable read.
I'm definitely interested in seeing what the author does next.
Sadly it wasn't particularly memorable and was pretty average for me but I can see others, particularly within the same demographic as Mia, enjoying this.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Mia wakes up from a coma in the hospital after a head injury, with no memory of who she is or anything personal to her life. However, she’s well aware of pop culture! Using her cell phone, photos she’s posted to social media in the past, and the help of her boyfriend’s house sitter, Max, she slowly remembers her life, but suddenly isn’t sure she wants that life back.

Siri, Who Am I? is quite timely in subject matter and an easy quick read. Mia is lovable and her chemistry with Max is spicy, so I was cheering for her to choose the good guy over the rich guy throughout the book! Pick this one up if you need a meet cute rom-com!

An entertaining, quick read with a main character who feels like a cross between Stephanie Plum and Bridget Jones. Super flawed but ultimately redeemable, the reader can’t help but root for her.

This book was a total surprise-- a fun one! Full of satire, wit, and snark, Tschida's style reminded me of one of my favorite writers– Carl Hiaasen à la Strip Tease (nutty, fun, and no-holds-barred). Of course, Tschida brings her own unique vision to the table. Could the book have taken a more serious tone with regards to the world of selfies/social media/finding out your identity? Sure. But then the story wouldn't have been as fun. I could have lived without the footnotes, but they didn't take away from my enjoyment of the book. (Perhaps they'd work better in a print copy where they don't mess up the flow?) In the end, I loved escaping reality into the wild world the author created.

Mia wakes up in a hospital in a fancy dress and no memory of who she is. All she has with her is her phone, which she uses to try to figure out who she is. While the premise sounded intriguing to me, this book fell a little flat. To me, Mia was a little selfish and obnoxious, even if she did have character growth at the end. The romance was fun and the mystery was intriguing, but the overall resolutions to the mystery also fell a little flat for me. The amount of craziness and deception Mia was involved in was a little too much for me. I also didn't like how much Mia made fun of Max, even if she did warm up to him in the end. While I enjoyed parts of this book, I didn't really like it overall. I do think people who like romance and a little bit of mystery and millenials trying to grow up will enjoy this.

I received Siri, Who Am I? by Sam Tschida as an ARC from NetGalley. Mia wakes up the hospital from a coma and has amnesia. The only way she can figure out her name is to ask Siri on her phone. Since Mia has no idea who she really is or what has happened she uses her social media accounts to trace her actions leading up to landing in the hospital. I'll admit that I didn't care for Mia for the first half of the novel. This was a fun read and it shows how social media is since a big part of our lives now.