The Right Girl

Freya Flannigan is on top of the world. Four years ago she started using the BBest app, an app tailored to her based on her digital footprint. She surrender everything she ever did on line to the app and now her life runs exactly to the app time line. It tells her when she feels like a coffee, what she wants or needs to eat and more. BBest suggested that being a florist was her ideal line of work, so she now runs a successful florist business out of her mother’s garage. She has recently become engaged to Mason, he was her 93% perfect match but they both think that the relationship must be a slow burn, as they don’t have that spark but it must be right because BBest said it is. Best of all, BBest eliminates all of that mind-boggling choice.

But what happens when you don’t want to do what BBest tells you to......

I love that dark, magical realism that author Ellie O’Neill brings to her books. They all have that touch of truth or something that doesn’t seem quite out of the question in this day and age. I wanted something light and entertaining (and it was) but was almost a seriously scary book as I sat here reading on my Kindle – with whatever stats going back to Amazon. And my Fitbit buzzing on my wrist notifying me that I needed to complete my 250 steps for the hour.....I rebelled on that one and kept reading!!
I suggest you read this book, I think of it as a tongue in cheek look about what can happen when we let technology take over our lives but it will also give you a lot to think about in terms of the information we willingly put on the internet.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for a copy to read and review.

Freya’s life has improved immensely since she got herself the lifestyle app, BBest, which narrows down every decision to the three top choices. It advises her on every facet of life – from what to eat and wear, encouraged her to switch from waitressing to being a florist, and even helped matchmake her with fiance Mason. But as Freya wonders whether Mason really is her near-perfect match, she discovers a dark side to the app that most of the population relies on.
This novel has an intriguing premise which isn’t perhaps as far removed from reality as you’d hope. The storyline hooked me in straight away - how amazing does an app like this sound! But O’Neill’s story brings home the reality of a world where everything we do is tracked by a digital entity.