Super cute story about a Korean American LA high school YouTuber who is sent to digital detox camp at a farm in Iowa the summer before senior year. Very funny and great lessons learned ❤️

Special thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the advance copy of the audiobook. The narrator did a great job also. Comes out June 3rd!

I enjoyed this one. I think it has a great message about how screens take over a life wrapped in a fun story About the contest and camp life at a working farm. I am an old farm girl myself, but not to the extent I had to muck out stalls. I enjoyed this book a lot and loved the subtle messages about how good technology can be and it’s pitfalls if abused.

5 stars

I have not enjoyed a YA contemporary novel as much as I enjoyed Sunny Song in quite some time.

Suzanne Park delivers on an absolutely brilliant concept with fantastic characters, immense wit, and remarkably poignant insight into the mind of a teenager living in the social media age. At first, I thought that Sunny was going to be just like many other YA protagonists - defined by a singular characteristic for the entire book. However, what is so genius about this book is that the entire concept allowed Park to subvert that trope and open up Sunny as a character during her time at the detox camp. Her arc was pulled off beautifully and I particularly enjoyed that not every question was answered by the end of the novel. There is such a sense of hope for the future that felt so right for a story about teenagers.

I am honestly shocked that more people aren't talking about this book. If you're reading this, get your hands on a copy ASAP!

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for a fair and honest review!

3.5 I really enjoyed the start of this with Sunny's social media antics and I know this was about the detox camp but I still kind of wish there had been a bit more of her videos as that was a really strong aspect! I wasn't convinced by the romance (to be honest I literally just finished the audio ARC and can't remember who she ended up with) but I enjoyed the senior citizen home and the idea of the camp. The book didn't keep its strength but this is the first Suzanne Park book I haven't hated so that's a big plus!

Thank you so much to net galley for sending me a copy of this book. I feel like this book taught me a lot of lessons and I think it could help you too! I would totally recommend this book!

I enjoyed this book and my review can found under the novel itself, but as for the narration of this, I have to say I liked it! She was really good at very distinct voices for the different characters and as a fan of Kim’s Convenience, I enjoyed the Korean influences in her choices of snacks etc and her complex relationships with her family members was very well animated by the narrator.
I think that I enjoyed this more as an audiobook than I would have by simply reading it.
Thanks to Sourcebooks and Netgalley for this audiobook arc in exchange for my review.

Look, it doesn't matter what it says on that cover. Sunny Song is famous to me.

Sunny Song is a teenage influencer working her butt off her to grow her social media platform. After school and on weekends she is working hard at getting videos and content together to post and reach that elusive 100k follower benchmark. She schedules all her posts, but the frequency of them has not gone unnoticed. After her LA school expresses concern and a filming mishap goes viral, her parents sign her up for a one month social media detox camp at a farm in Iowa. It's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, if you ask me, but holds the makings of a great story.

Sunny was a fabulous star for this story with so much depth to her. Given that the premise centers around a young woman absorbed wholly be her phone, social media, and the number of online interactions she has, I was expecting someone rather vapid and gross. Sunny was a very likeable character with a great sense of humour, real teenage concerns and wants, and an overall sweet personality. I definitely laughed a few times at her voice in here, but also understood her dreams and fears. She's an independent woman making her way in this off the rails world the best she can and I could only admire her for it. I will admit that her character took a bit of a hit for me at the end when she had the opportunity to stand up for someone in trouble for something that wasn't theirs, and did not.

Like Sunny, I found this to be a surprising story overall. I didn't quite know where it was going to go, but I enjoyed the themes it leaned into. A young woman choosing her future on her own terms, whether that is going to college or going into business for herself. Making meaningful relationships and how social media can help enhance and benefit those. Even Sunny's identity as a Korean-American, how she chooses to embrace that amongst touches of racism, whether intentional or not. It was nicely thought out and had a great ending. The character growth for Sunny alone was worth the read, and it had me reflecting on my own social media and phone use.

This book was not perfect, though. I found that the writing sometimes went into the minutiae of certain tasks, describing every little movement needed to complete it when it was not necessary. It dragged the story down, especially when that word count could have been used to build out the story more. Even some of the characters could have used some beefing up. The book was far from boring, but I do wish we could have gotten more of the camp activities and the hijinks that came with them. Even the things described on the cover as her summer goals were barely given enough notice.

I really enjoyed this! It's a quick read that's super cute and fun!

This is a really cute, thoughtful, funny YA about an Instagram/YouTube influencer, Sunny Song, who gets sent away to "Technology Detox Camp" for the summer. This was my first Suzanne Park novel and I quite enjoyed it. It's an interesting, nuanced take on the technology generation that I think treats teenagers with the respect and nuance that they deserve.

I think it's perfect for anyone who loved To All the Boys but thought that Peter Kavinsky was a bit of a dingdong! This is definitely Sunny's story, with a very small, sweet romance sprinkled in. It's a quick read, so a lot of the side characters felt sketched in rather than fully formed, but Sunny herself was a really strong, imperfect character in a way that was really fun to read.

Joy Osmanski's narration is smooth, funny, and easy to listen to.

Thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the ALC!