I’m sorry, but I found this book thoroughly disappointing. I was given the book as a gift because when I was little, I love the Ivy and Bean books. I was very excited to read it as I thought it would be a fun, young adult version of Ivy and Bean, but this was most definitely not the case. I should have been wary when I read a number of reviews before reading it that said it was extremely offensive to minority groups, making fun of the LGBTQ+ community, mentally ill people, POC and people who have suffered abuse. I went into reading it with an open mind. I am the first person to admit when something is offensive or inappropriate. Personally, I thought the “jokes” were insensitive, but what I found most upsetting was that Annie Barrows was mocking YA authors who include diversity in their books. Diversity should be celebrated, not frowned upon and ridiculed. Barrows really dug herself a hole because most of her audience is young adults who want to see themselves in the characters they read about. In creating these two very two-dimensional characters who make fun of the people who are just like the people reading the book, she’s offending her audience which is hard to recover from. Like I said, diversity should be celebrated, not ridiculed. Aside from that, it’s just poorly written. Quite frankly, the reason no one else has written a book about nothing is because it’s boring. Some parts were hard to read because they were just insensitive, boring and cringey. Having said that, there were parts that were funny, but i’m not sure if I just thought it was funny that these girls clearly think they’re so superior because they have absolutely nothing interesting happening in their lives!

I really wanted to like this book, but sadly I was disappointed and would not recommend it to anyone.