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Ship It
by Britta Lundin
This book was such a hot mess from start to finish.
For starters, I didn’t like a single character (well, I liked two character, but they were pretty minor in the story in comparison to the main characters). Everyone was so awful to each other and they all seemed intent on doing everything they could to inflict the most harm on each other. None of them felt real either so everything just felt so awkward in their interactions and just made it that much more difficult to read this. I also felt like the characters completely changed, and I don’t mean in a “they grew and evolved over the story.” I mean the characters at the beginning of the story were completely different people from who they were at the end of the story, to the point where it felt like I was reading about two different sets of people.
The second biggest issue I had with this book was IT WAS SO UNREALISTIC. Literally NOTHING that happened in this book felt possible. The whole set up from the start was just completely bananas and it only got worse as the story progressed. It got to a point where I was just like “yup, okay, I’m reading fanfiction about fanfiction now,” that’s how bizarre it was. Everything that happened was so contrived that I just couldn’t care about any of it by the end.
There were also some things in here that made me SUPER uncomfortable and neither one is really addressed very well in the story.
Overall, this book was just really not good. The only reason it got two stars and not one is because I actually did like the writing, especially the fanfiction parts. They were truly the only things I liked out of this whole book.
For starters, I didn’t like a single character (well, I liked two character, but they were pretty minor in the story in comparison to the main characters). Everyone was so awful to each other and they all seemed intent on doing everything they could to inflict the most harm on each other. None of them felt real either so everything just felt so awkward in their interactions and just made it that much more difficult to read this. I also felt like the characters completely changed, and I don’t mean in a “they grew and evolved over the story.” I mean the characters at the beginning of the story were completely different people from who they were at the end of the story, to the point where it felt like I was reading about two different sets of people.
The second biggest issue I had with this book was IT WAS SO UNREALISTIC. Literally NOTHING that happened in this book felt possible. The whole set up from the start was just completely bananas and it only got worse as the story progressed. It got to a point where I was just like “yup, okay, I’m reading fanfiction about fanfiction now,” that’s how bizarre it was. Everything that happened was so contrived that I just couldn’t care about any of it by the end.
There were also some things in here that made me SUPER uncomfortable and neither one is really addressed very well in the story.
Spoiler
At one point, the female main character decides to tell her love interest’s friends the truth about her love interest (that she loves fandom and goes to conventions etc) and in retaliation, the love interest outs the female main character to her mom. IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT OKAY?! I’m not saying the love interest didn’t have to a right to be upset by what the female main character did, but outing someone to their parents is gonna have potentially WAY WORSE consequences than telling your “friends” (because let’s be honest, if you can’t tell your friends the things you care about without risking losing their friendship, then they’re not real friends) that you like going to conventions and being part of fandoms. You can get new friends if they reject you (especially since they’re only in high school); you can’t get new parents if they reject you.Spoiler
Another part that made me feel super weird was that the female main character decides to write real person fiction (RPF) about the male main character and his co-star AFTER SHE’S MET THEM AND SPENT TIME WITH THEM. Now I might be biased because I already think RPF is kind of weird because I don’t like to mess with or think about or ship real people (even if they’re already together) because it makes me feel squicky, but I especially don’t think it’s okay to write about PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY KNOW, especially without asking them if it’s okay, and writing them doing sexual things to one another when people might realize you know them. That just feels really inappropriate and kind of abusive tbh.Overall, this book was just really not good. The only reason it got two stars and not one is because I actually did like the writing, especially the fanfiction parts. They were truly the only things I liked out of this whole book.