📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Siri, Who Am I?
AUTHOR: Sam Tschida
@therealsamtschida
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: January 12, 2020
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.
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Small Summary:
Mia might look like a Millennial but she was born yesterday. Emerging from a coma with short-term amnesia after an accident, Mia can’t remember her own name until the Siri assistant on her iPhone provides it. Based on her cool hairstyle (undercut with glamorous waves), dress (Prada), and signature lipstick (Chanel), she senses she’s wealthy, but the only way to know for sure is to retrace her steps once she leaves the hospital. Using Instagram and Uber, she arrives at the pink duplex she calls home in posts but finds Max, a cute, off-duty postdoc supplementing his income with a house-sitting gig. He tells her the house belongs to JP, a billionaire with a chocolate empire. A few texts later, JP confirms her wildest dreams: they’re in love, Mia is living the good life, and he’ll be back that weekend.
But as Mia and Max work backward through her Instagram and across Los Angeles to learn more about her, they discover a surprising truth behind her perfect Instagram feed, and evidence that her head wound was no accident. Who was Mia before she woke up in that hospital? And is it too late for her to rewrite her story?
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.