The Disconnect by Keren David

In this book we meet Ester and we see how her and her best friend Natalie as well as their crushes Tom and River as well as the rest of their school all partake in a challenge to ditch their phones and earn themselves a thousand pounds!

Only the woman behind the idea may be using the project to make teens rely even more on technology rather than doing less like they try.

After finding new hobbies and use of her time as well as being the victim of a mugging due to a phone argument it makes her feel more free than feeling paranoid people don't like her approve her clothes etc...

This book is relevant to now in a time when it seems people always have to be on their phone apps doing something this book highlights just how damaging they can be but also how nothing is as it seems a lot of the time too.

Generation Next by Oli White & Terry Ronald

When Jack moves school after being badly beaten up by bullies, he finds himself making friends with a group with his same shared interest in media as well as catching the eye of Ella, whom he first sits next to in class. The group he meets soon invites him to Austin, the group's leader's house to hang out in their technology den where they come up with their GenNext idea from watching gigs online as well as using social media.

As the website takes off being talked about all over the internet, the group face a huge live meeting abroad about the future of GenNext as Hunter's uncle dodgy company want to buy GenNext and threatens releasing a sex tape between Hunter and Ella if they refuse.

Throughout the book, friendship is tested and bullies play a huge role in the story. There's also the fact that Jack's mum faces cancer and he still goes ahead with the meeting abroad which personally I don't think I could do. It was a good book but I would've liked there to have been more about GenNext and what they were posting etc.