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Iris, Beauty, and the Instagram Photos

Reeli Reinaus

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  • Illustrator: Marja-Liisa Plats
  • Ronk Ronk
  • 2024, 176 pp
  • ISBN: 9789916934500
  • storybook, fiction
  • Age: 13+
Iris’s whole life revolves around Instagram. She’s constantly thinking about how to take photos that will keep her followers’ attention, because if she gives them their next dose of content, they’ll give her hearts in return. And hearts equal attention, approval, and love. It’s the feeling that she’s important, that she’s noticed, that she matters. But when she randomly meets a boy named Joonas in the woods, she starts to realize that despite her incredible number of followers, she doesn’t really know who she actually is or what she actually likes. Iris isn’t even sure if she should try to find out… And if she does, then how? If she ends up discovering the truth, then what’s she supposed to do with that knowledge?
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Review:

All of us seem to be tangled in one way or another. Sometimes the tangle grows overwhelming, while other times it unravels into something more manageable. This book might help some young people to loosen up their own tangle or notice a friend's tangle and help them with it.

-A dust of the Feather, reading blog