Thank you to NetGalley and Azala Romance for providing this book, with my honest review below.

Notoriously, Yours takes place in a future that still has influencers, but includes way more tech than today. The other thing it contains? People who have powers known as glitches. Normally people with powers are seen as superheroes but in the fictional world of Nautville, glitches are second class citizens. That’s why it’s so devastating for Charlie when her boyfriend not only breaks up with her on a live feed but reveals she’s a glitch - one with the power to read minds and drop thoughts in them. Influencer career effectively destroyed leaving Charlie reeling.

A few days later (everything in this book is on an accelerated timeline, it seems), Charlie bags a date with a new guy, Will, only to show up and discover she’s one of many women vying to date him on a reality show for glitches. Though this isn’t her scene, the threat of being arrested by the shadowy Agency (a robot police force seemingly out to get glitches) has her in the reality house and not exactly miss congeniality.

The action in this book is great, as is Charlie’s development as a character. I just really wish we had more time to understand Nautville and some backstory on glitches coming into public view, just general world building. If I were to put that aside I did have a sweet story with some good twists and ideas that I think would be a hit with a younger adult audience. Maybe a series can build this world up as many of the characters are ones I want to get to know better!

This was an ARC from NetGalley, and this is an honest review.

First, there were a lot of typos in this book - brian instead of brain, pain for paint, had instead of said, contact instead of contract, etc. Could use another editing pass before release and hopefully the print books have already had an additional round.

As a silly romcom with superheroes and reality TV, the romcom side was front and center. While there are references to serious thematic elements like societal crises of discrimination and shadowy control conspiracies, the bulk of the book is standard romance fare. The influencer dealing with a public relations fiasco joins a bachelor-style reality TV show and as you'd expect, there is plenty of talk about fashion, hair & makeup, cliques, and posing for photos. These 25 girls are all superpowered though - they're called Glitches and have mutations that lead to abilities of illusion, fire creation, flying, sparkly skin, color changing, invisibility, etc. The superhero NitroForce is the Bachelor of the show, aka Will, and his reason for hosting the show is rooted in fighting stigmas and criminalization of Glitches. Our MC is 18. If I had known that, I might not have read this. Her decisions and thought processes are typically 18 & dumb, and her emotions are all over the place. Accurate for an 18 year old, annoying for me.

Some of the drama and pacing is a little unbalanced, everything feels very young here. Characters, storytelling, plot, it's a decent first novel but I'd imagine the author will develop intensively over the years.

this was a fun read. i think the premise was really cool. for a young adult it had a good spin on the infleuncer subject. i think they could leanr a think or two without it feeling like they were. about the industry and perhaps the things the run it. often wroking agaisnt the viewers themsevles.

im not sure whether as an adult i didnt have as much fun with the over thinking i got from this book ha. because i actually saw so much more in the plot than maybe was meant. a influencer who gets her following via mind control. well, to me that all feels pretty normal. because surely we all realize this is going on. influencers are NOT who they say they are. they lie. cheat. sometimes do the worst of behavior and lie to gt following. they create lives to get that following. lives within second long reels. put the camera down and in this case we have someone with superpowers. but put the camera down on people in our world and we have fakes. and as is coming out we have abusers. we have people who are actively trying to pull the wool over their followers lives. followers who seek a need of connection or community. who live off being "seen". and in doing so these influencers have such a toxic roll in creating what they need to get this adoration. weve created a platform for narcissists. and in doing so the companies then make money from them. as the industry thrives of what these narcs can push to their audience. its like a ladder of a feeding frenzy where sadly the people at the bottom ie the viewers, always come out on bottom. to me my mind spiraled into that too much for this one to be enjoyed as much as it should have. but i think this says more about me. having just lost a young person, someone directly related to this i was hoping it might be a ight reprieve. but i think i wasnt ready for it. and that is entirely on me. but i equally didnt want to lie in my review.
for most i think this could be a bright and fab book. i loved the concept and it was as pink and bright as the cover. so i can actually only apologies.
but i dint want to give a flimsy review and not explain my reason. the book and author deserve better than that.

Charlie is a fashion influencer until her ex-bf reveals her ability to read minds and mind-control. Fallen from fame, she is asked out by a guy. As it turns out, she is asked to be a conestant on The Super Date, a new reality dating show for supernormals.

It's kind of a fun The Bachelor for super heroines and villainess? Love the fun and the concept. Love the side-characters too. What a refreshing story.

Thanks to the publisher for the arc.

This book is a fun fast-paced YA fantasy that blends reality TV drama with magical twists. The story follows a mind-controlling influencer competing on a supernatural dating show, mixing humor, romance, and social commentary. It's refreshing, entertaining read for fans of fantasy with a modern edge.

This was such a fun read! It is about the influencer world which is so highly popular these days but with a twist. It was so fun to follow our MC’s journey and see her redeem herself while meeting some unique and quirky characters along the way in a reality show competition