DNF at 25%. It's been over four years since I received this ARC. I gave it a go and have decided it is not for me. It interested me then and no longer does now.

As someone who was definitely awkward and strange as a teen, there's definitely something funny about a teen being /more/ awkward and strange lol. Emma is sooooo over the top but also so (for lack of a better word) silly? She feels so young and so caught up in things that truly don't matter, but are obviously so earth-shifting to her. I read this and could only think of my 13-year-old cousin who can relate so wholeheartedly. Emma is very funny, very naive, and hopefully she stops chasing a boy who don't deserve her!

I was actually really disappointed with this book. It looked like it would be a funny read, but it almost felt as if the author tried too hard to be funny. I kind of found it... juvenile. The humor in it at least. I had hoped for so much more.

Since the series ran from 1999 to 2009, most of today's teens are probably unfamiliar with the ten-book Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison. Maybe they've heard of the 2008 movie made form the first two books, but it's a bit of a stretch. People born in the mid-80s to early 90s are probably the most familiar with them, so why am I bringing them up? Because Dating Disasters of Emma Nash is Georgia Nicolson in the age of smartphones, Tinder, and finding out your boyfriend broke up with you by seeing him make it Facebook official with another girl.

Emma Nash is a girl of 16 with wit coming out of her ears and a private blog only her mom and best friend read, but there are three major things she lacks: self-awareness, self-respect, and Leon, the guy she thought was her boyfriend until he ghosted her and hooked up with a girl too sweet to hate. Anna runs a baking blog, for God's sake! How can Emma compare when she's spent two months cyberstalking Leon, living in her own filth, and moping around?

Through entries in her combination blog and digital diary, Emma tells readers how she alternately tries to get Leon back or get over him with help from her three best friends and some old-fashioned masturbation. Like, quite a bit of it. Emma is frank about her sexual appetite and seems to be developing praise and humiliation kinks. But enough about that, I don't want to take this into creepy territory. How about those eponymous dating disasters?

Without consulting her, Emma's friends Steph, Gracie, and Faith make a Tinder profile for her and hook her up with Greg, a sweet guy Emma met at a party when they were both drunk out of their minds. But before Greg, there's

*Laurence, whom she chats online with happily only for things to collapse when they see a movie together;
*Paolo, whom she catfishes only for him to say she wasn't drinking enough on their date;
*and Alex, who's a friend of Faith's only it turns out Emma was chatting with his THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BROTHER.

So no, Emma's not having good dating luck. At least she has her bawdy and very British sense of humor. She's bound to make you laugh out loud the same way I did, though the casual ableism in calling her classmate Holly "Crazy Holly" often dampened the humor. Emma's cognitive dissonance in how she treats her friends and how she thought stringing along Greg and Leon would possibly work at the same party may also get on readers' nerves.

But you know what? I liked it. Emma Nash is a spiritual successor to Georgia Nicolson and I'm sad its sequel Friendship Fails of Emma Nash hasn't been brought over to the US yet. I want it! Maybe it will happen if enough people in the US buy Dating Disasters of Emma Nash? So let's make it happen if only so I can have more of this thoroughly modern British nut.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me of a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Emma Nash is sixteen and obsessed with a boy who has ghosted her. She has a blog and writes about him constantly. She decides to start dating other boys in an effort to forget about the boy who has broken her heart. Poor Emma! She reminded me so much of sixteen year old me. And twenty year old me. And twenty-five year old me. Let's just say my dating history was as disastrous as Emma's. The book was so funny and relatable, but also a bit juvenile. It wasn't the most profound book I've read this year, but it was cute and I will read the sequel.

This book was fun. It was a nice departure from a lot of self-realization novels about clumsy girls who are trying to figure themselves out but it was also similar in a lot of ways, which is why this gets an average 3 star rating from me. A stand out feature of this story was the humor. It was so funny. I would definitely pick up more books from this author.

I will be honest. I DNFed this. But I'm almost positive I would have given this a bad rating had I even finished it. I couldnt do it anymore. The main character was childish and annoying. Yes, she was 16, so it made sense, I suppose. But I couldn't do it anymore.

This book was really funny at times but there is literally no plot. She just cries about being ghosted by a boy who was the worst to her. I liked the frank talk about female masturbation and the bits of feminism thrown in. However, literally all Emma does is whine about this boy and alienate herself from everyone else. I wanted there to be so much more substance to this.

This book was absolutely hilarious. I was laughing out loud quite a bit. I even read it in one sitting.

***I received an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for this opportunity.***

This was a great book. The story was captivating and kept me interested throughout. Can’t wait for more from this author.

This story felt a lot like reading The Princess Diaries book - it was set up like journal entries and the voice in the writing sounds like a quirky, funny, emotional teenager. It was a nice quick read and she made me laugh.

I tried, but this book was just not something that I could get into. I found it boring and I kept getting annoyed with the characters, particularly Emma. This makes me unhappy because I have heard wonderful things about it, but I couldn't get through it, unfortunately.

This British Invasion YA is one that will be enjoyed more by teens than adults who typically read YA.

It's the story of Emma, a British teenager, who is trying to figure out dating and an online presence, specifically social media. Along the way, she makes some very teenage-ry mistakes, does a lot of venting online, and has the typical teen mood swings.

HOWEVER, while Emma's actions are immature, they are very realistic for teens, and the lessons she learns and reflects upon in her online blog (and therefore with the reader) are important lessons that parents/teachers/adults are constantly trying to impress upon youth.

While Dating Disasters of Emma Nash wasn't my favorite read of the year, I will still be adding it to my library's YA collection as I'm sure it will resonate with many teen readers.

PS I never read Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, but from what I know of that book, I imagine Dating Disaster of Emma Nash is the upperclassman version for the 21st century!

I was provided a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review.

I'm going to try and be brief because I don't want to start going into a rant. This will (hopefully) be a constructively critical little blurb about how I felt about this book. Emma as a character was very naive, but even more than that she was immature, self-centered, obsessive, and completely unsympathetic to those around her. She was also, as is mentioned in the novel, a complete doormat. The fact that she only finds out she's been dumped by this Leon character when he starts dating another girl is, in one word, despicable. But the fact that Emma then spends month(s?) wallowing in her room and then obsesses about this same boy non-stop is really where the true crime is. This goes past even teen drama to the point of being unhealthy. The idea that young girls might read this and think this is normal behavior is awful. If a boy EVER treats a girl in the way that Leon treated Emma, he shouldn't be allowed to date anyone. Same with how Emma treated Greg to be honest. Even teen romances should incorporate respect for the other person's feelings as much as possible. 

OK I'm starting to rant, I'm just going to make a list on my observations:
1- Emma whined all the time 
2- Emma couldn't stop talking about the boy who treated her badly
3- Emma treated everyone else badly
4- There was underage drinking
5- Excessive talking about masturbation
6- I was glad Emma realized in the end she should pursue her own interests and just learn how to be happy just as herself but I hated the fact that it took over 300 pages to reach that conclusion

This a perfect read for beach. It's funny,heartwarming and relatable! This a book for feminists and all of you that feel that way. I enjoyed it,but it wasn't the best book I read. Although it's funny,I didn't like the characters. It's possible that I'm too old for this book,but Emma was kinda annoying,and I'm so sad because of that,because this book had a real potential. Anyway,I still plan to read sequel!

This book was just not the one for me.

I had a lot of high hopes after I read the blurb- I was thinking I'd be getting some kind of Bridget Jones's for the Young Adult reader. In a way, it did remind me of Bridget...we really get the novel through a series of blog entries, text messages, and tweets.

I don't really have strong feelings, in either direction, about that narration style, so that definitely wasn't a deal breaker for me.

Honestly, the main character was. I get that Emma's a teenager, and she thought Leon was her BIG LOVE. There just was not enough humor to balance out the moping. The beginning really dragged for me, and I totally understood (and not in a funny way) how Emma could think that her friends and her mother were going to start getting tired of her. If there had been comedic relief, I could have dealt with the long-term moping, but the book just didn't make me laugh.

Aside from that, I just didn't find Emma to be very likable. She was totally self-absorbed, and she just really wasn't very nice to a lot of the important people in her life. Some of that could be excused as the side effect of dealing with a break-up, but I didn't feel like she really changed at all.

Emma Nash has a lot of promise, laughs, and a heavy dose of Tumblr humor.

16-year-old Emma is trying to get over a bad "dating" experience. But she's not even sure if she was dating? Now her crush is definitely in a relationship with another girl, and Emma has been officially ghosted.
Emma is NOT handling this well. And she's decided it's time to fix her dating life.

Ok, starting this, I honestly though Emma might be Emm from Jane Austen's Emma. Dating, setting up lists about people, being kind of boy-crazy, it sounded like Emma Woodhouse. But Emma Nash is really not the famous Emma. At all.

At first, Emma Nash is funny. She's blogging, one presumes on Tumblr because these blogs read like Tumblr more than anything else. Her blogs are quick and to the point. But after a while, they start feeling repetitive. Leon is dating someone else. I need to get over Leon. Here's a list of all the guys I could go out with.
Emma blogs through each iteration, each chat with her friend, each drunken party. It's query, but grows tedious.
Sometimes I wanted to ask if Emma had an actual life. Her obsession with the official jerk, Leon, and finding a replacement guy just grew old.

Now, there's a certain fun humor to this book. Lots of pop culture references. Emma's friend Stephanie is ridiculously funny. Honestly, I wish this book were narrated from Stephanie's POV because Steph is funny.

The writing style of the book can be a tad distracting, since it's all written in Tumblr blog posts. Skip setting & details for quick updates from Emma. basically, lots of lists. Which grow tiresome about the 3rd or 4th time she starts listing them. (What a pun, wow)

If you're looking for a quick, summer afternoon, contemporary read, Dating Disasters might be a good choice.

Arc provided by Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

This was pretty cute and entertaining. I thought Emma definitely represented our youth today and I liked the message at the end that the internet should not be your whole life. Kids today tend to stay zeroed into their phones and miss life so this was a great message for teens.

I will say the part that didn't quite work for me was the sex talk. I wasn't offended or anything, but I don't think girls talk about masturbation as openly as Emma did throughout the book. I think the book would have been okay if that part would have been left out because it didn't fit as much to me.

One thing I loved was how Emma didn't end up with either guy. I thought Leon was horrible to her and she in turn was horrible to Greg so neither guy was the one I wanted her with. I appreciate that the author chose to have her be single.

I thought this was really funny at times and I did find myself laughing out loud. It brought me back to my youth and I have to say I kinda loved it. I am definitely eager for the next installment.

I feel a little mixed about this book, but I think my overall impression is pretty positive. Emma is dealing with a breakup with Leon, where he essentially just ghosted her and started dating someone else. As you can imagine, she's a bit heartbroken and insufferable throughout a good portion of the beginning because she's trying to get over him. She has a private blog (all of the book happens with blog posts, texts, tweets, etc.) where she shares these sad feelings and attempts to hatch a plan to move on from him.

This book was reminiscent of Chloe Snow's Diary because it's a very real-sounding personal diary of someone trying to find their way in high school. Emma was not perfect, made a lot of mistakes, and inevitably realized what she was doing wrong. I like flawed main characters and I think reading her thoughts as they'd appear in a diary-like blog allowed me to sympathize a little more for her?

While attempting to get over Leon, she tries to date a few other people and even ends up in a relationship with someone. She's very half-assed doing all this though because she's not fully over him. It was frustrating because you know she's making the wrong decisions, but you can see why that's what a naive 16 year old could do in that situation. If you're someone who reads YA books and then complains that the MC felt too young or made dumb decisions, don't read this book. I really put myself in the shoes of my 16 year old self and found a lot to relate to.

The ending was a little too abrupt for me. It was a bit anticlimactic and predictable, but the obvious "conflict" you saw coming was barely a conflict. I would definitely read a second installment though; I'm very curious to know what happens next for Emma after the realizations she made at the end.

I received this book on NetGalley in exchange of an honest review.
This book was an enjoyable, lighthearted read which I was able to read in an afternoon, however I felt that there were some problems.
There wasn’t a certain direction the plot seemed to be going so the book seemed drawn out and read like it followed the daily life of Emma, but didn’t really seem to have any interesting points. I found myself getting bored in some sections that I found unnecessary for the quality of the book. You could read the first 20 pages and then the last 20 pages, and you would know everything you needed to know about the entire book. I understood the overall moral of the story but the plot didn’t have that much correlation to it.
Emma’s character was developed well, but the supporting characters weren’t very well developed and their personalities seemed to be all over the place.
Also some of the explicit scenes in this novel were more new adult than young adult and some parts of it made me feel a bit uncomfortable as I felt it was a bit too intense for young adult.