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dropoutdaisy's review against another edition
3.0
I'm still a little confused about this one. On the one hand, I loved it in the beginning for its portrayal of online friendships and the transcript style of all the electronic communication worked really well for this. On the other hand, the relationships in the book were strange and .
So three stars. It wasn't bad, but it didn't blow me away. Super short read, though.
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after the accident the relationships became even stranger. I thought this would be a romance-ish story from a review I saw, but it just ended up confusing meSo three stars. It wasn't bad, but it didn't blow me away. Super short read, though.
achaquejoursaplume's review against another edition
emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I'm struggling to find words to express how much I loved it, and I am grateful for the multiple representations it gives.
I think it's a book I'll keep thinking about for a while.
I think it's a book I'll keep thinking about for a while.
owlwaysbookish's review against another edition
2.0
2.5
A book about two girls loving a tv show, obsessing and finding each other YES. This is very relatable stuff and to me the show felt like it was about Sherlock and the website was very much tumblr. I feel as we don't know the show and generally how the story was told through blogs, messages and entries I felt a bit distant from the characters and general story than I would have if it was in first person.
We follow Gena who is an 18 year old soon to be college student, she is under a lot of pressure to do well and succeed. She has anxiety and deals with mental health issues- she feels like she can be open about this online and share this knowledge with people she hasn't met.
Finn is 22 and has kept this fandom stuff from her boyfriend, who she thinks is going to propose. She feels like she is hiding this part of her life from him and when she does tell him, he doesn't understand as much as she thought.
The story follows these two girls getting closer, sharing a love of something and expressing fandom culture and going to conventions, meeting irl and just having that.
They say I love you and grew closer, to me I didn't really see this bond as romantic? Like I platonically say I love you all the time and that's what it felt like. I felt distant from their bond and we didn't see much more than words and messages. If this was written otherwise I feel their bond would've been easier to see.
We get to the end where we find out Gena was a child actress with one of the actors of the show they love and she gets invited to do a special episode. While filming there is a fire on set. Gena gets injured and their favourite actor dies along with several others. Gena lost a friend she called a big brother and the fandom mourns their favourite character.
Gena moves in with Finn while she recovers, her parents are backpacking and travelling the world and she has no one else. She slowly recovers surrounded by her friend.
I hated how Finn basically 'settled' for an okay relationship and that hey getting married to him won't be so bad. Like it's not the worst thing in the world so lets go.
I like how it portrayed fandoms, online culture and how important friendships formed online are. But the ending and relaitonships between the characters fell flat for me with how it was told.
'This is the show we love, and tearing it apart like hyenas every time the writers do something we don't like it shitty' - Describes basically fandom life tbh
'I miss being around people who get it. The fucking depth of feeling that comes from a show like this. The attachment to the characters. And this is me, you know? I am a fan. It's not just something I do, it's something about the way I'm wired...I've always had a fandom. I've always had characters who live in my head and mess with my heart and tell me stories, and I love it.'
'Loving someone is a period, it's a semicolon.'
'If love is a semicolon then grief is a comma.'
A book about two girls loving a tv show, obsessing and finding each other YES. This is very relatable stuff and to me the show felt like it was about Sherlock and the website was very much tumblr. I feel as we don't know the show and generally how the story was told through blogs, messages and entries I felt a bit distant from the characters and general story than I would have if it was in first person.
We follow Gena who is an 18 year old soon to be college student, she is under a lot of pressure to do well and succeed. She has anxiety and deals with mental health issues- she feels like she can be open about this online and share this knowledge with people she hasn't met.
Finn is 22 and has kept this fandom stuff from her boyfriend, who she thinks is going to propose. She feels like she is hiding this part of her life from him and when she does tell him, he doesn't understand as much as she thought.
The story follows these two girls getting closer, sharing a love of something and expressing fandom culture and going to conventions, meeting irl and just having that.
They say I love you and grew closer, to me I didn't really see this bond as romantic? Like I platonically say I love you all the time and that's what it felt like. I felt distant from their bond and we didn't see much more than words and messages. If this was written otherwise I feel their bond would've been easier to see.
We get to the end where we find out Gena was a child actress with one of the actors of the show they love and she gets invited to do a special episode. While filming there is a fire on set. Gena gets injured and their favourite actor dies along with several others. Gena lost a friend she called a big brother and the fandom mourns their favourite character.
Gena moves in with Finn while she recovers, her parents are backpacking and travelling the world and she has no one else. She slowly recovers surrounded by her friend.
I hated how Finn basically 'settled' for an okay relationship and that hey getting married to him won't be so bad. Like it's not the worst thing in the world so lets go.
I like how it portrayed fandoms, online culture and how important friendships formed online are. But the ending and relaitonships between the characters fell flat for me with how it was told.
'This is the show we love, and tearing it apart like hyenas every time the writers do something we don't like it shitty' - Describes basically fandom life tbh
'I miss being around people who get it. The fucking depth of feeling that comes from a show like this. The attachment to the characters. And this is me, you know? I am a fan. It's not just something I do, it's something about the way I'm wired...I've always had a fandom. I've always had characters who live in my head and mess with my heart and tell me stories, and I love it.'
'Loving someone is a period, it's a semicolon.'
'If love is a semicolon then grief is a comma.'
fibbits's review against another edition
4.0
I loved that this was all epistolary (that's how you spell it, right? haha) - epistolary novels are one of my favorite things. The ending went in a very different direction than I was expecting, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (and I think I actually quite liked the ending. I have mixed feelings)
bookstacksamber's review against another edition
3.0
I was absolutely loving this until about three quarters of the way through, when things took a turn. I was expecting a fluffy friendship and maybe love story, and while the first half of the book was just that, that isn't what we got in the second half. This is absolutely just a personal preference of mine because I'm typically not a big fan of "feels" books. It's not a critique of the book itself, just something that I don't personally particularly enjoy from books. That's also why I dropped it down to 3 stars.
I really hated the way it ended. I felt let down after I got so invested in Gena and Finn's friendship and relationship. Knowing now how it ended, I wish there had been more of Charlie's character throughout the book. He was an important part of the last 50ish pages of the book, and I probably would have enjoyed it more if the author's had shown us more of his personality and POV throughout. I wasn't invested in him as a character at all because we'd been told so little about him, so for him to play such an important role in the end of the book left me a little bored and wanting more from the ending.
I really hated the way it ended. I felt let down after I got so invested in Gena and Finn's friendship and relationship. Knowing now how it ended, I wish there had been more of Charlie's character throughout the book. He was an important part of the last 50ish pages of the book, and I probably would have enjoyed it more if the author's had shown us more of his personality and POV throughout. I wasn't invested in him as a character at all because we'd been told so little about him, so for him to play such an important role in the end of the book left me a little bored and wanting more from the ending.
istolethecatspjs's review against another edition
3.0
The first part was okay, overall it
made me feel like it was a fanfiction of a fanfiction. It does read fairly quickly, but there are a lot of pages that have half a page or less of writing.
made me feel like it was a fanfiction of a fanfiction. It does read fairly quickly, but there are a lot of pages that have half a page or less of writing.
mrscreativity_1982's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5