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A review by siavoosh
I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
5.0
Being a fangirl is not the same experience for everyone who call themselves fangirls. It's so much different when you are fangirling over real human beings, and I've always thought about this a lot. Both now, and back when I was a real people fangirl myself.
This book simultaneously told the story of the famous boy band and the fangirl, while they both thought they knew the other party, but came to realize that they actually had no idea.
It was queer and iconic, surprisingly deep, and absolutely unputdownable (It was the first time in ages that I read a novel in one day). I wish I had read it in my fangirl days. I wish fangirls read it now. It probably won't change someone's entire life or view on fangirling, especially someone who is deep in the fandom and probably has their guard up since they're so used to everyone, especially adults, not taking them seriously. But it will give them a whole other perspective on things, with its honest, non-judgemental portrayal of fangirl life, especially when it comes to shipping real human beings mostly because of the way they look at each other.
I'm also quite stunned by how there wasn't any moment in this book where I wanted to slam my head against a wall because the way the character's being Iranian and Muslim was shown was just WRONG (it's a bit sad that I'm this shocked it wasn't terrible wlidksk).
So, yeah. Go read this everyone. I think I'm officially in love with Miss Oseman's writing now.
This book simultaneously told the story of the famous boy band and the fangirl, while they both thought they knew the other party, but came to realize that they actually had no idea.
It was queer and iconic, surprisingly deep, and absolutely unputdownable (It was the first time in ages that I read a novel in one day). I wish I had read it in my fangirl days. I wish fangirls read it now. It probably won't change someone's entire life or view on fangirling, especially someone who is deep in the fandom and probably has their guard up since they're so used to everyone, especially adults, not taking them seriously. But it will give them a whole other perspective on things, with its honest, non-judgemental portrayal of fangirl life, especially when it comes to shipping real human beings mostly because of the way they look at each other.
I'm also quite stunned by how there wasn't any moment in this book where I wanted to slam my head against a wall because the way the character's being Iranian and Muslim was shown was just WRONG (it's a bit sad that I'm this shocked it wasn't terrible wlidksk).
So, yeah. Go read this everyone. I think I'm officially in love with Miss Oseman's writing now.