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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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If you’re unaware, the story follows Angel (if you don’t want to know anything about the plot, stop reading now). Mano, estava muito ancioso para chegar, estou começando agora minha coleção de livros da Alice e estou DOIDINHO pra ler. The third novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless, Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series. He needs both his band-mates and ordinary friends to help ground him in reality when surrounded by screaming fans and endless selfie requests.

This was followed by Radio Silence, and then her third novel I Was Born For This was published in May 2018.

I especially appreciated the relation between fandom and (heavily implied) mental health issues; we hyperfixate on things like bands, books, tv shows because they let us escape from our negative thoughts and feelings, and Angel's relationship with The Ark's fandom really shows that. It’s about teens who love dreaming of being rich and famous and in love, dreaming of a world that is beyond what they have. My biggest problem with this book though does lie with the fact that the fanbase for The Ark (Angel included) really ship Jimmy and Rowan together. Alice Oseman manages to make it feel like I’m reading a teenage perspective, and then give both Jimmy and Angel distinct voices that really show their different personalities. I mean there happens a lot that’s off screen and we never get to see it but if they really feel like they’re a fraud that would make me kind of sad.

It’s be a long while since I’ve come away so intensely invested in a contemporary young adult novel, and this one hit me hard.For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation.

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