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by Olivia Dade
I'm such a sucker for books about fandom although I confess I also approach them generally with some trepidation, but this was exactly what I needed in 2020 and took me completely by surprise. This is a very loving look at the (messy) world of online fandom, delightfully tongue in cheek at times, and if it pokes fun at anything it's at certain real world franchises (and, er, their showrunners, perhaps...) parodied in this book treating their actors, staff, and fans badly, which delighted my inner (or maybe just outer!) pettiness.
The leads are both really likable and interesting, particularly their fraught relationships with their respective families (the author's note at the end about some of the fandom spaces she had been spending time in before writing were so fun to read - you can absolutely see the influences but until I read that, I don't think I would have picked up on it, I loved how Dade took some aspects of those characters but hasn't at all reproduced them) and perfect foils for each other. I was impressed by how much I liked Marcus, the way he keeps his secret identity secret (and vice versa) is one of those situations that has strong 'yikes' potential, but Dade writes it so nicely that I didn't find that at all.
The leads are both really likable and interesting, particularly their fraught relationships with their respective families (the author's note at the end about some of the fandom spaces she had been spending time in before writing were so fun to read - you can absolutely see the influences but until I read that, I don't think I would have picked up on it, I loved how Dade took some aspects of those characters but hasn't at all reproduced them) and perfect foils for each other. I was impressed by how much I liked Marcus, the way he keeps his secret identity secret (and vice versa) is one of those situations that has strong 'yikes' potential, but Dade writes it so nicely that I didn't find that at all.