I WAS BORN FOR THIS: TikTok made me buy it! From the YA Prize winning author and creator of Netflix series HEARTSTOPPER

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We let him soak up the glory in the form of congratulatory pats and hugs from the other contestants. The book discusses the power of a boyband but it could be any fandom IRL. I think it showed that it was okay to be a fan of something but it also showed that there are other things in life and that we should not lose ourselves completely into something. There is a certain balance that needs to be achieved! Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 28 October 2022 . Retrieved 28 October 2022. Slowly, but surely, I have realized that I appreciate stories dealing with celebrities and fandom a whole lot. Who has never dreamed of being on the other side, seeing what celebrities actually feel like? Who has never fan-girled over a celebrity or a boys-band for ages, dreaming of meeting them. I know I had these kind of moments in my life and I did some crazy things to see my favorite boys band of all times as well. All of this to say, this book is a love letter and an incredibly realistic portray of fandom and what it means to be in a fandom, what it means to love something this much and how it can, sometimes, turn your thoughts and life completely upside down. Alice Oseman GETS THIS. . INCREDIBLE & DIVERSE CHARACTERS I think the characters were incredibly well-developed. Oseman clearly knows who she’s writing and who she’s writing for. The plot was enticing which made the book incredibly hard to put down. The writing style was real, and it felt like you really were inside a teenager’s head.

A lot of them only like us because we have nice faces. But as long as we are here, the three of us, and we get to make music, and we get to live this life – playing our music in a new city every week, bringing smiles to millions of faces, leaving our mark upon the world – then everything is good, and fine, and okay.” Angel/Fereshteh Rahimi - The biggest fan of The Ark. Eighteen, Muslim, and I felt like they were on the Ace spectrum. For such an overthinker, Jimmy can be extremely dumb sometimes, which I kind of love because it puts us more on equal footing. Why else would anyone want to be around me?” he says. “I’m Lister Bird. Why else would anyone want to be around me other than to get with me?” Cecily sent me several shortbread recipes for me to try and memorise. I skimmed them last night. So I’ll probably be fine.Probably more of a 3.5 but I suspect that has a lot to do with my total disinterest in contemporary novels. It's always the same. It was the same with Sandhya Menon's lovely When Dimple Met Rishi. Like this one, it was a very nice, soothing story with great characters, but just not 100% my jam. I just don't think it's fair to rate a novel lower because I personally cannot be arsed with the contemporary genre. That's not on the book; it's on me. The same can be applied to all of the other characters. What is most important is that none of this feels forced. Not only do we have a rainbow of sexuality and gender-fluidity, but this book reflects a tiny but amazing part of this world's diversity.

Because that’s the problem with dreaming – eventually, inevitably, real life arrives with a wake-up call. And when Angel and Jimmy are unexpectedly thrust together, they will discover just how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be. I don’t know who I am. Everything I do feels like a lie. I wake up every day and I have to be Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, this famous guy, and I have to smile at the camera and say hi to people but ... I don’t even know who I am underneath that.” Without you ... without The Ark ... all I have is my dull life. You’re one of the few things I had in my life that was good and true. You’re part of my truth.”

Normally I’d make a joke and say yes. I could say something about how his jeans sent the fans into a frenzy and us laying down on the floor together was a metaphor for our friendship, or the fact that there’d be a thousand fanfics written about the way he ran over to Rowan by the bin. We had a free evening and got to watch it live. Well, Jimmy didn’t actually watch it – he mostly peeked at it from behind a cushion – and I did get hungry halfway through because of the pork pies and went to the kitchen to heat up last night’s leftover Chinese. graceisolde Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV) RPF, Solitaire - Alice Oseman, Radio Silence - Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman, Loveless - Alice Oseman