Now let’s talk about the pic of Rowan and Jimmy sleeping together in their bed. *lol* OR let’s just talk about how close they are as friends! I mean it’s so obvious that they love each other a lot, just not in the way the fandom wants them to. There’s no Jowan, but I really adored their interactions and how much they seemed to care about each other. You can see that they are really close and that they are super comfortable around each other. I’m like that with my besties too and a very cuddly person. (Do whatever you want with that random info. *lol*) So for me to see their strong bond was really nice and even though they argued quite a lot in the ending it was only because they cared so much about each other. =) The only flaw that I could find was that the plot took a somewhat messy turn towards the end. It might have needed more structure, more of a direction to remain realistic. I felt like there was too much going on at the same time. I also wished for more closure at the end, even though I like it when stories have more of an open end. But this was a wee bit too open to make me satisfied.

I guess you can already tell that this book made me think a lot and I have so many thoughts and feelings it’s quite a challenge to put them all into words. There were so many topics and situations that spoke to me and no matter if it was Jimmy’s POV as a musician, Angel’s POV as part of the fandom, the diversity and reps or the relationships between all of those lovely characters, I could relate to all of them! *lol* This book reminded me so much of my own youth and my life in general that it almost felt like Alice Oseman wrote it just for me. Like seriously! Alice how do you do this? Fortunately for us, I’m excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay." I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”I loved the interview they gave when they said “the fans like to overthink everything we do” and I had to agree so much! *lol* I mean JK shows his eye tattoo in an episode of RUN and ARMYs be like: OMG!!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!!?? I’m ARMY myself so I can laugh about this and say that we’re all clowns. *lol* Anyway, what I want to say with this is that the fandom rep was so damn on spot I can’t even! Haha! Alice Oseman captured it so well and I loved that by inventing Juliet and Angel she also gave room to the fandom side that’s not just screaming and fainting fangirls/boys. You’d be surprised about how many of us are actually normal people that just love our boys and their music. XD If I’d get a chance to spend a day with BTS I’d probably just hang out with them, eat good food, play silly games and talk about God and the world. Maybe I could even persuade them to play guitar or e-bass with me? *lol* So yeah, pretty normal stuff. Also since my kid is so little she’d probably be the star in the room and they’d play and goof around with her. XD Because no matter how famous they are, they are still normal (okay, they are perfect!) people and I totally agree with the sentiment that they feel like they are my friends. In difficult times their music helps me to get through the day and they always make me smile which is pretty amazing. =) So if you ever come to Austria and read this BTS, write me and I’ll invite you over for a schnitzel and potato salad. Considering the dumpling incident I better don’t invite you for roast pork and dumplings though. *lol* ;-P 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. In her earlier novels, you could already see certain... themes. She likes queer people and mental illness, and mentally ill queer people. Since it's young adult fiction, the protagonists have to be oddball outsiders who are into weeeiiiiird things like THE INTERNET :0 Now if I get a chance I will make her my bestfriend , like she is so cool and awesome , I can spend nights with her obsessing over the boys. It may not be that amazing for you, but this book has two bisexual side characters and I loved them with all my heart. Bliss and Lister were absolutely amazing, and I was happy to see myself represented in them because they’re the absolute best. Then we have Rowan, the third member of our band, and he’s probably the one who took me the longest time to like, but I understand where he’s coming from and I respect him.

And we have Jimmy Ricia, front man of The Arc band , who is currently going to a tough phase in his life managing himself between all this fame, new contract , loads of work and of course his mental health. But maybe there’s some value in slice of life - when it comes down to it, this is a book about being okay with not being okay. None of these characters end the book feeling totally okay, but they ended this book just a little better, and there’s something rather valuable. This story is also about friendships made on the internet. To meet their idols and go to one of their concerts, Angel and her online friend Juliet decide to meet for the first time in real life and spend the week together at Juliet’s grandma’s house. It’s both of them realising people aren’t necessarily the same on internet or irl, and it’s okay, because some of people are way more confident on the internet and shy when they have to talk to someone face to face. Fereshteh "Angel" Rahimi is a fangirl of boy band The Ark, it's her main love and joy in life. She's average at studies, she's going to average university and she's okay with it. She has The Ark.

As I said before, this is Alice Oseman's best book so far, especially plot-wise. It's a strongly character-driven book but what happens in it is equally exciting. I was drawn into the story right from the beginning. When I first heard that Alice was writing a novel about a fangirl and her favourite band, I wasn't sure if I would like it. Even though I knew that Alice was an exceptional writer, I didn't think that I could relate to a boyband-obsessed main character and the superfamous male counterpart. I expected this story to be a romantic one - but I should have known better. Even though we get to see a few kisses and crushes, the focus is on friendship, faith and respect. The characters were all relatable, even though some of them are more sympathetic than others. I don't want to tell you too more than that this story will surprise you.

This book follows Angel, a girl on a mission to see her favorite band. And when several things go wrong, she might end up actually meeting some of them. A huge, huge cast thing about this book is that it preserves the humanity of all the characters. It is a book that focuses on friendship, not romance; character development, not plot. In many aspects a wholesome book, I would call it a must-read of 2018 if you like contemporaries, fluffy, fun and serious. But this was a very sweet, heartful little book, and the characters were easy to get behind. Was it always believable? No, but I'm not really looking to read a book that's the same as real life. Real life is boring and messy and exhausting and it's full of irritating moments that aren't ever resolved. They just stay irritating forever. That's adulthood for you.Juliet Schwartz - Eighteen and Angel’s best friend that she was introduced to on the internet and is meeting for the first time to see The Ark together. Right now I am anything but calm plus I have been crying for an hour thinking about this book, "my boys" and everything I have put my heart in for them! I can't put my finger on exactly why, despite all the elements I usually dislike reading, I so thoroughly enjoyed this book. Maybe it was the characters, who all felt so real and flawed. Maybe it was the relationship dynamics between everyone involved- complicated and messy. Maybe it was the diversity that made this seemingly unexceptional book, well, exceptional. Jimmy's voice actor is amazing. I loved listening to him, to the rise and fall of his voice. Angel's voice actor is great too, but she really has to work on doing German accents. As a German myself, I know what our accent sounds like, and the version in the audiobook was nothing like it. What really set me off, was her rendering of Mac's voice though. God, he is an annoying person, but listening to the way he talked made me consider fast-forwarding the audiobook.