While I’ve enjoyed the authors other content this was a disappointment. I was lost in the content more than once.

While I found some of the stories of online dating interesting (as someone who has no personal experience or know anyone who does), they began to be repetitive after awhile. I'm not sure the author had as much to say as she thought she did.

Sadly I could not get into this book. This was less of a sociological study and more of a choppy memoir about dating in your fifties. I should have read more into it before I started reading. It’s a shame because I love Sales’ writing, but it just wasn’t resonating with me as a reader.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.   Thank you NetGalley!

I'm not sure what I expected out of this book, but honestly, this just fell flat in general.
I couldn't bring myself to finish it sadly.

An author with an entertaining style of writing a clear voice.We go along with her adventures with dating apps as she shares her experiences.We go along for the good and bad times.Really enjoyed following her adventures,#netgalley#hatchettebooks

This gave me serious sex and the city vibes and im here for it! 
As Nancy Jo Sales tells her story with online dating along with other experiences as well as studies that have been done. i love a good online dating story and this gave me all the things i wanted. Everyone should read this in their early 20s

A real life tale of the "Swipe Right" generation and how one woman navigates this 'brave new world' of sex, dating, and technology. With technology weaving its way into every aspect of our lives it was only a matter of time before it had a huge effect on our relationships. Nancy discuss using the apps, how she lost and found love, and what an app centric sex life looks like in middle age. Using her wealth of knowledge she brings up interesting points about how our relationships, sex lives, and prevalence or lack there of is effected by this new trend of swiping.

Nancy Jo Sales has such a distinct voice and a talent for narrative non-fiction. In Nothing Personal, she chronicles her own experience with dating apps airs out the good, the bad, and everything in between. Really interesting.

I found this super relatable at first and some throughout because I am out in the world of dating apps...BUT, I did feel like things got very repetitive feeling. It also wasn’t quite what I expected. I thought it would be a series of stories about her experiences, but it kept circling back to the same WAY younger man-child and I was over it pretty quickly. This could have gone a much better direction. Thinking I need to write a book of my stories 😆

This book provides humor and made me laugh at loud at times. The writing style was a bit confusing at times, as I felt there could have been more backstory for the various plot lines. I enjoyed the raw honesty of Sales' stories and experiences.

I loved reading this fascinating memoir of the writer’s experiences with the world of online dating. The pitfalls along with the positive surprises kept me glued to the pages!

I only made it to 7% and have no desire to finish.  I expected it to be a little more humorous but it was dry and all over the place.  Skipping from one instance to another and I lost track of timeline and everything which made me lose interest quickly.  I appreciate the author, publisher and Netgalley giving me the chance to review for my honest opinion.

There will be a more refined review heading up onto review sites and blogs coming soon. 

I was drawn to this book instantly because I love a good dating app debauchery story. Having come up in an age where majority of my friends and I were meeting our partners (and friends) online by the time high school and college came around, I can usually relate to the absurdity of the stories and the complete exhaustiveness of dealing with people on various social media platforms.  I was eager to dive in! 

By 15% through the book, I had so many highlighted sections already, which is quite unusual for me. I rarely highlight more than 2 times in an entire book. Unfortunately, it was not for the positive reasons you'd hope it would be. It was not funny and certainly wasn't the, "brilliant investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps", that it's being packaged as. It reads more as a bitter, out-of-touch, painfully unaware person wrought with privilege. 

The sentence, "Some of them were atheists and some called themselves "ethically non-monogamous", is eye-rolling and frustrating on its own. They don't "call themselves" that, they ARE ethically non-monogamous. A very real, valid, and functional scenario. If Nancy Jo was, at all, the dating app expert she pretends to be, she'd know that dating apps are a hotbed of poly and ENM seeking people, because it has created a way for them to openly connect. Good grief. They are not pariahs, they are adults seeking as valid as a relationship archetype as her own hookup seeking. 

In regards to someone she spoke saying [women] can't post anywhere online without wondering if a guy from Tinder or Bumble might be checking them out, is also so out of touch. Most dating apps don't give out your handle or a link to your account, they just integrate the pics into the feed. Something you can NOT DO if you don't want random people finding you without consent. They fail to mention that many people put their handles in their bios, something else that can be swiftly rectified by....deleting the handle from the bio. A shocking revelation, I know. 

Before I move on to a, hopefully, better book, I just want to say there was one entirely bizarre passage that was so uncomfortable to even read. It went, as follows, 
"Once, when I was sitting on the toilet, a bold-eyed little lizard appeared on the windowsill, on the other side of the screen, and his crimson throat started pulsing in and out, in and out, while he was staring right at me, and I knew that this had something to do with sex, and I was both freaked out by it and quite flattered".

What on Earth? It's so cringey to even look at that passage. 

After many more pages highlighted quotes of cringe and secondhand embarrassment, I made the decision to shelve the book as a did-not-finish. 

The book reads as a 2004 LiveJournal entry written by a grandma trying so hard to fit in with ~the youths~ but ultimately ends up only appealing to other grandmas who want to scare their adult grandchildren out of using dating apps. I'm just baffled at this, who is the target audience even?

I found myself *seen.* while reading this book. Thank you for telling us that how women are treated in the modern age is not okay.

The value in Nothing Personal is that Sales calls out some perpetrators of modern misogyny through detailed anecdotes set within a frame story. Memorable for me were the mentions of incels, sexist decision making by (supposedly forward-thinking) companies, that Tinder was popularized at SMU, and that dating app companies won’t share concrete data. This book introduced me to the concept of dating historians, a profession I am delighted exists.

Overall, Sales successfully captures the experience of dating in today’s landscape.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for my digital copy in exchange for an honest review. First off, let me apologize in advance to the author for what I am about to say. I will take full responsibility for why I did not like this book. BUT...there are not enough words in the English language for how much this book and I did not get along. I am at fault because I chose a book based on it's cover more than anything else. What this cover says to me is that this book is going to be full of funny stories of stupid shit women do on dating apps...I don't use dating apps because I have been married most of my adult life but I have to say I probably wouldn't use them anyway as I am very much an introvert who actually thrives on her alone time. If I had actually bothered to read the synopsis and read the word "feminist", I would not have requested it. I have not, nor most likely will I ever, liked feminist movies or books. They tend to be full of anger and hate...yes sometimes life is about that but I choose not be angry or hateful if I can help it. Anyway, I very soon reached a point where I literally could not read more than ten minutes at a time because it would piss me off so much. Sometimes it would be the run on sentences that took half a page, sometimes it would be the fact that it jumped all over the place and didn't always seem to have anything to do with dating apps, and sometimes it would be the content itself. Reading about a woman somewhere near my age going against herself because she was afraid a young guy wouldn't want to have sex with her? Nope, not gonna do it. I have reached the point where I am relishing that I don't have to worry about that crap anymore and she is sad because a man child might not want her? Eesh...

I received an ARC from the publishing and Netgalley. Nothing Personal mainly describes the author's experiences as a single mom using dating apps. Boy am I glad I've never experienced online dating. Met my husband the old fashion way, through friends. This book was just ok for me. I was surprised how quickly they put Covid references in the book. I'd say only read this book if you've experienced online dating, otherwise you won't be able to relate.

Thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

As a single woman in my thirties, this book couldn’t have come at a better time. Sales is funny, serious, and perfectly captures the fluctuating emotions that this time in life can bring. Buy it for your girlfriends wondering if they’ll be “forever single.”

This was just what I was needing to break up my constant murderous books!  Glad I don’t have to use online dating, as I don’t think I could survive!  A well written, dramatic, funny story that really delves into what it’s like to use online dating sites!  It really had me laughing out loud in parts, but thankful that I don’t have to use these to try and meet their life partner!  Anyhow, if you want a fun, funny, and slightly sad story on the horrors of online dating, here’s your book!

I got quite an education from this book. The world of online dating is something I've never done, but I was curious to know more about it. This book made me run the other way. As portrayed by the author, online dating services are merely platforms for quick, casual sex. The sexist attitudes and behaviors  of men using these platforms were stunning. 

The book was well written and interspersed with thoughtful essays on sex and feminism. I wish there had been more essays and less descriptions of the author's sexual encounters.

It’s public knowledge that everyday casual misogyny flourishes on the Internet. But nowhere is this phenomenon more noticeable than in the world of online dating. For many women the dating landscape can look bleak, sexist and can even be dangerous. "Nothing Personal", by Nancy Jo Sales, could be another tome on the dangers of social media and relationships, but instead the author deftly weaves in her own experiences using these dating apps into the narrative. This turns what could be a clinical study on feminism in the age of the Internet into a personal journey and exploration into women’s wants, desires, and goals in dating. 

Nancy Jo Sales digs deep into the Big Dating companies, and the answers are daunting. These services like Tinder, OkCupid, Match, etc present themselves as “revolutionizing” dating but are reticent to take any ownership over the experience of their users. Online dating apps have inadvertently provided an environment in which users feel it is ok to post intolerant and insulting posts, many pointedly at women. Also, to the consternation of many women, dating online can mean dealing with the frustration of perpetually being in an “undefined” relationship; Never knowing if they can actually refer to it as a relationship at all.

Again insofar as Nothing Personal represents a critical look at social media dating platforms, with all the facts and statistics presented up front, what really makes the book resonate is the author’s personal story using these services herself and the emotional roller coaster she experiences as a result.