Izzy and Ajita’s other friend Danny is also important to them both but his behaviour and entitlement put my back up from the very beginning. I loved Izzy’s friendship with Ajita, how the two of them know each other so well and while they are from different backgrounds that can put them at a disadvantage in the world, Izzy is poor and Ajita is Nepalese-American, they can sympathise with each other over those things because they are unfair in different ways but they never presume one of their issues is bigger or worse than the others. It’s one thing being confident in what and who you want, but it’s another when all your decisions and appearance is being scrutinised by not only everyone at your school, but all over the world. Izzy is a great character as while she readily admits she likes sex and dislikes the double standard men and women are held to when it comes to sex and their sexuality, it doesn’t mean that she’s not hurt, confused and ashamed when private photos of her are spread all over the internet. (That’s something I can relate to) I also love how self-aware she is, she knows her faults even if she often tries to hide them from everyone else. I loved her sense of humour and how she uses that and sarcasm to keep people at bay and to cover up how she really feels. I read most of this book in one sitting, and to be honest if I’d started it earlier on on the day I first picked it up, I’d probably have read it in one day too. I read some five star reads last year but none of those books were ones that I devoured quite like The Exact Opposite of Okay. It’s been so long since I’ve fallen so hard and fast for a book and a main character. This review is probably just going to be me gushing about how The Exact Opposite of Okay gave me all the feels.
Izzy is about to find out that the way the world treats girls is not okay, and she’s not going to stand for it.
Izzy, along with her best friend Ajita, sets out to figure out who’s behind the vicious website while still trying to maintain her grades, humour and sanity. But when photos involving her, a politician’s son and a garden bench emerge, the trolls set out to take her apart. Izzy never expected to be eighteen and internationally reviled.
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