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3.26 AVERAGE
3.26 AVERAGE
I gave this book three out of five stars because I enjoyed reading it but I will not read it again or recommend it to any of my friends.
This is a story about two people who are in the same fandom. In some ways, it is the story of love through the internet, but it also delves into the life of acting and growing up. Gena and Finn learn to love each other while managing their lives, and they talk both in real life and through technology.
This is a good book to read if you're looking to think about what it really means to love someone, and if love has to exclusive or if you can love many people at once, in the same way, and if it makes you a bad person to do so.
This is a story about two people who are in the same fandom. In some ways, it is the story of love through the internet, but it also delves into the life of acting and growing up. Gena and Finn learn to love each other while managing their lives, and they talk both in real life and through technology.
This is a good book to read if you're looking to think about what it really means to love someone, and if love has to exclusive or if you can love many people at once, in the same way, and if it makes you a bad person to do so.
I will be thinking about this book for weeks. Female friendship---as many of the book reviews and essays and other longform stuff I read will tell you---is sort of the final frontier in Life and Literature. I am grateful for this book for a framework for discussing the blurred lines between platonic friendships and romance. This book is absolutely nothing like I expected and I am very grateful for that. I would've liked a bit more development between G & F towards the beginning of their friendship, but that's my only complaint at this point. But I finished this book less than 20 minutes ago, so processing is still happening, I guess.
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I LOVED this book! I’m not really a fandom type person, but these characters sucked me right in. I love the setup of the story being told through blog posts and comments, emails, and texts. There is very little backstory on the sections that happen beyond the technology, so there’s a lot of room for the reader to get involved in the story.
OH. MY. GOD. THIS. BOOK!! It gave me so many feelings!
beautifully written, extremely relatable and fun! Also, so extremely sad! I couldn't put it down!
beautifully written, extremely relatable and fun! Also, so extremely sad! I couldn't put it down!
Was a reread of a book I adored in high school so I recognize my bias (although - last time I read this I was Gena, and now I am Finn, which made it hit super different) but this is one of the best books About The Internet that I've ever read, not to mention one of the most tender queer coming of age stories ever written
3.5 stars. This was a book written for my soul, which was painfully true to my experiences of online fandom and deep, complicated relationships that defy labels. The epistolary format felt forced at times, and there's a sucker punch about halfway through that pushes the book into a different genre imo, but it's still an enjoyable read.
I enjoyed this muchly. It starts off sort of like fan fiction about fandom, which made me a little skeptical at first. The plot takes a hard left at the 2/3rds mark which literally (à la Chris Traeger) made me gasp. In the aftermath of that turn, there are some beautiful passages of writing that I will hold on to for a while.
Pretty okay until about three-quarters of the way through when it became a hot mess. Honestly was like watching a train wreck whoops
I thought I outgrew contemporary YA, but then this book unexpectedly came along and it was the kind of book you read in one sitting and where you want everyone around you to shut up and leave you alone so you can go back to reading it, it was that kind of compulsively readable. It went in a completely different direction than I was expecting in the third half, but very nice characters and relationship dynamics and excellent dialogue and voice (which is super important when it's a novel wholly made up of emails/chat/blog posts like this one).