Confessions from the Group Chat Review

 

 This is the second book in the Deer Hill Anonymous series by Jodi Meadows. The first book was Bye Forever, I Guess, which I read earlier this year, You can read that review here. 

Confessions from the Group Chat is about Virginia, an eighth grade girl who has a rather toxic group of friends. She often finds herself acting mean like the rest of her friends, but every time she acts like them she feels guilty. She also has a crush on Grayson: a guy in her grade who used to be quite popular when he was a football player. 

One day in their friend group chat, Virginia accidentally sends them a picture of Grayson she secretly took. The other girls start teasing her about liking "a loser" like him. The next day at school during lunch, Virginia kind of gets revenge on them teasing her by admitting a rather private secret of the girls out loud, named Kat. 

Humiliated, Kat and another one of the friends named Mary Heather decide to take screenshots of all of Virginia's texts where she says mean things about other students at their school, and put them on Scrollr (a website similar to Tumblr). The posts go viral, and Virginia finds herself being the most hated person in her school. The only ones who talks to her Grayson and sometimes her ex-friend, Jessica. 

Luckily, Virginia's family (and Mrs. Kaufmann, the head librarian at her community's library) is very supportive of her through all of this. Virginia also finds comfort in texting her "text-door" neighbor about things that make her happy. He just so happens to be a boy her age. Sooner or later, she'll find out who he is...

Yes, this was so much fun! It was just as cozy and heartfelt as the first Deer Hill book, with a super relatable protagonist (for me, at least! She also like reading and cats. I wish I could be good at weaving like her). I think everyone should read this regardless of their age! I gave it 5 stars.