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I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

120 reviews

andloveistoolong's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Minor: Child abuse, Biphobia, Drug use, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

_nem_'s review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Rep: POV trans man, POV POC islamic girl who wears a hijab, gay characters, bi characters

I related to both of the main characters in the book. Angel through her parents constantly worrying and her trying to find her own way in the world. And Jimmy with his anxious thoughts and panic attacks. It felt like they understood me in a way that people never really have before and I understood them. 

The premise of the book is very interesting with one POV from a member of a band and the other from a fan of the band. I don't know much about the behind the scenes of bands but it seemed to cover that well. This book was a lot about relationships and how keeping things from each other affects the relationship with that person. 

I wouldn't say it was an easy read with Jimmy's panic attacks sometimes causing me to feel panicky too but I did enjoy this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use and Self harm

alexlily's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The Ark should go on an 18-month hiatus, I've heard good things hahdhdja

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Stalking

Minor: Abandonment

agatha's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

3.5

as always with alice oseman:  i loved the characters so so much and also the writing. 
the conflicts of the characters and contradictions between a fangirl and a pop-rockstar was pretty interesting to read. i also think the struggles of the characters were pretty interesting, real and often relatable. but still; the book was pretty dark and emotional. nonetheless i really, really enjoyed reading this one. would've loved to read even more about lister, ngl, he was such an interesting and well written character, with very real struggles and i hope that alice will write something about him some time :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

ivulikkivulik's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

This reminds me so much about a fanfic I wrote once. It got very ridiculous at times 

and I am still confused what Fereshteh did wrong and why so many characters had something together. Her "obsession" with the band did not seem as bad as everyone was making it out to be. The whole plot from the concert onwards was very meh.

I wanted to add this after reading some reviews: Yes, maybe when Fereshteh thinks about how much she loves the band, that is showing some flaws but still, that is her internal monologue and I have not really seen anything like that in her interactions with other people.

However, I love how Oseman writes diverse characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Transphobia

antimony's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 angel loves the popular boy band The Ark. she's loved them since she watched their very first youtube video years and years ago, before they were famous, before they even had a record deal. and now she's going to meet up with her best internet friend, and they're going to go to a meet-and-greet and concert together, and everything is going to be perfect.
jimmy is the frontman of The Ark, but it isn't the dream that everyone may believe. he's struggled with intense anxiety for years, and now, with the prospect of a new contract, with skyrocketing fame (maybe even worldwide), and with screaming fans following him wherever he goes, it's just getting worse and worse. he shouldn't complain, though -- all he's ever dreamed of is being in a band with his best friends, lister and rowan. he owes everything to The Ark.

this was really good as alice oseman's books always are! the emotions ran high. i feel so so so bad for jimmy -- though i am a bit of a fan of when media presents fame as a not good thing because oh god, it sounds so stressful. not to sound quirky but i don't think i've ever dreamed of being famous. this has all the typical features of alice oseman's books -- good characters, moments you will tear up, etc. the reason this one gets 4 stars instead of 5 like her other two books i've read is because there was only like 1 or 2 parts i almost cried at as opposed to like radio silence where i had a real tear at least 3 times. SAD! actually HAPPY! it does have a nice ending :) i do think a LOT of the Ark's problems would be solved if they abandoned the industry's album-tour-album-tour endless cycle and switched to something more akin to album-tour-hiatus-album-tour-hiatus. and they never even consider it :( 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Stalking, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

One of the main characters has a bit of a breakdown throughout the book, caused by an anxiety disorder. There is also some discussion of shipping real people and a lot of parasocial relationships.

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Transphobia

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I loved that the story included sexual orientations and choices. I loved that it showed mental health issues. I loved how flawed the characters were. I loved that the boys stayed true to their music. The only thing I didn't like about this was the unfortunate meetings (like how Angel and Jimmy met or how badly Rowan treated Angel). Also, Marco was so weird. ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

lost_windsock's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book had a bit of a slow beginning, and an absolute whirlwind of an ending. I couldn't put it down towards the last hundred pages or so. It deals with so many real, ragged emotions, and the journey every character went on was intense in it's own way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Cursing, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying and Adult/minor relationship

emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Self harm, Death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Grief