I just did not like this one. Graphic sex, fandoms are a thing now, and have been for a while. I don't think they are considered shameful. Claire doesn't grow or change.

I decided not to read this book after I heard reviews from people apart of the LGBT community hating this book. Mostly how the main character treats other people with no consequences.

This was incredibly cute! I loved the main characters, and the romance was adorable. It was like Fangirl, in the best possible way. Highly recommended. 5/5 stars

This book sounded like it would be the perfect book for me, sadly it ended up being a pretty problematic story with a terrible main character.

At first this book is cute and pulls you in with a likable character that could be you or me, or anyone who has ever been obsessed with a TV show. As the story goes on it becomes more and more of a train-wreck. 

Claire is a terrible person. She's internally homophobic, but on the other hand she pushes a sexuality on another person in a way that made me very uncomfortable. She does terrible terrible things in the name of the fandom, without seeming to care that she could ruin Forest's career forever. She goes on to share some of Forest's private information in a fanfic, and continually harass him. And I'm not even started on the abusive relationship she has with the girl she likes.  I hated Claire with a passion.

The story itself also had issues. I didn't like the message it was pushing about fandoms and writers. Fans don't get to dictate what writers write. They can comment and critique the show or story, in fact they are supposed to do those things!  But they shouldn't force a writer to change something, because in the end it's not their story. And the fact that we're supposed to be sympathizing with Claire as she tries to push everyone to do what she wants, seemed wrong to me.

I was honestly surprised I made it through the entire story, but I decided I needed to read it in order to give you all a fair review of it. Now all I can say is I don't recommend this book, I gave it one star on Goodreads.

Overall, I found this read to be meh. Some things could have been handled better, some characters rubbed me the wrong way, and I was not a fan of the ship. I'm not sure I would recommend this book as it was diverse, but not everything was handled well.

I really did not enjoy this one for two reasons. One, the age differential in the main characters is too large. Two, Claire treats the personal lives of two strangers as her own business, including outing one of them. The ripoff of the Supernatural fandom is also excessively irritating.

I didn’t really connect with the characters and I didn’t find the story to be gripping, even though I was expecting to find it really interesting. I have heard people say it can be offensive at times and I definitely agree, which didn’t help with my lack of interest. In the end, although my reading experience wasn’t terrible or anything like that, I didn’t enjoy the story enough to continue reading after I got to the halfway point.

I'm pretty much the target audience for this book and I still felt it tried too hard and turned into rants more than stories
At times. But yessss give me gay Dana Sully cosplay wars any day!!!

No, no, no. I don't know what to say other than this. The writing style is bland, but that could be a preference on my part, my rating isn't down to how the author wrote it; I don't like the fangirl fetishism in this book.

I loved this book! The full review will be posted soon at kaitgoodwin.com/books! Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to connect books to their readers!

I ended up DNFing this book. I found some of the content to be problematic and didn't really connect with the story.

I loved he premise, I very much enjoyed the writing, and I loved having a book that I thought I could finally take some queer joy in. But. Yikes. 40% of it was absolutely painful and not in the ‘eeee will they kiss or just be awkward’ way. Claire and Tessa and Forest are just so toxic. I was really hoping for a sweet rom-com but it was such a gut-punch of homophobia from so many sides (characters, not the author!). okay yes Forest has a ‘lesson to learn’ I guess? At the expense of Claire, who Tessa thinks has her own lesson to learn about coming out, all while Claire is using her m/m ship in such a gross way. One of those subplots probably would have been fine but all together it just felt like a Lesson book. If I’m going to suspend my disbelief to let Claire tour with the show, I can’t handle the rest on top of it. I don’t ship any of them together.
Queer Geekerella was what I was hoping for, shame was what I got.

I was expecting a book which was an ode to fandom culture and a cute f/f romance but what I got was a story where fandom is depicted horribly and a character is outed without her permission and then there is no proper apology for that. I love reading YA but this book was too much unnecessary teen drama.

So many feels. This book reminded me why I forced myself to stop reading fan fiction. I get so invested in the relationships that never happen in canon that it hurts. That feeling is so well captured here and adds the interpersonal element of when you disagree with a friend about what should be canon. I loved it.

<I>I received a copy of this ARC from NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.</I>

<I>Ship It</I> was a pretty cute book. I really like diving more into the LGBT books and I also found it interesting to dive into the comic-con/fanfiction world as well. Now I've never been to a comic-con or read anything fanfiction-related but I honestly really enjoyed this book.

<I>Ship It</I> follows a super cute friendship between Claire and Forest. Now it doesn't technically start off promising but that's mostly due to the fact that their communication sucked major ass. They also didn't know jack shit about each other and just assumed everything and anything about them. Well, until towards the end and they started to realize that didn't know anything about the other person - or about themselves.

Now about the characters, Claire write fanfiction about her favorite show and ship. Then there's Forest who's an actor in her favorite show, <I>Demon Heart</I>. Okay - I have to admit that I love shipping characters and I honestly never really thought about what the actors think about those said ships... or the fans. So this book diving into both the actor and the fan's world was pretty intriguing. I definitely felt what each character was going through and connected pretty well with them both.

However, I did have one problem with the book and that's with the way it was sort of written. I didn't like how it transitioned between what was happening in the book and what was the fanfiction. I probably would've liked it be transitioned a bit better BUT then again, I did read this ARC on my kindle app ( which is on my phone) so that could've been why it was weird to me.

Overall, I really liked this book and I will definitely be diving into or waiting (Im)patiently for the next book by this author.

I'm back and forth in my opinion of this book. With the wide variety of characters and attitudes we have a number of opinion being expressed, all with merit. We explore the power and pitfalls of fandom, celebrity, new spheres of influence, sexual identity, the power of story, affecting change. I like that we see the fine line between desire and reality. We see the protagonist's push to make her pairing reality and the destruction it causes. In the end, the real value in her campaign is the realizations she has along the way. Yes, the actor has an awakening about his prejudice and toxic masculinity but she too must come to see how her influence as a fic writer can be damaging when it has affects on the real world.

Lundin does a stunning job capturing fan life for teens. After an ill-conceived answer by the star of her favorite tv show goes viral, Claire finds herself on a journey to different conventions with the cast and crew of the shows. She knows they are just trying to save face, but she is determined to use her proximity to influence the outcome of the show's direction. Lundin's characters are believable and the viewpoints of the different characters familiar to many teens who spend their time in fan culture. Enjoyable and real, a must purchase for all libraries.

Wanted to like this but couldn't even finish it. I hated the main character and that alone made me not want to keep reading. There was so much potential here but this book just didn't live up to it. Hard pass for me.

I'm a little conflicted about this book - on the one hand, it helped me understand the "ship" culture, but on the other I found the idea that fans can/should control the direction of a show really annoying. I know that Claire is young, but doesn't anyone around her bring up things like the horror that was Dave and Maddie on Moonlighting? Or how much better Xena was for winking at the audience but not giving in to the "shipping" of her and Gabrielle? Sigh.

As far as characters go, Claire felt very one-note, while Forrest had more depth (which was odd, as they're presented as being the opposite!). And the plot? Pretty predictable.

ARC provided by publisher.

**I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review***

I have been excited for this book ever since I heard about it months ago. I am a big fandom nerd and love any book that gives a new look on the world of so many kids, teens, and adults.

Anyone who is a big fan of a particular movie, book, show, etc can admit that they have very specific opinions on how certain relationships should be playing out. In other words who they "ship" together. I loved that Claire was so dedicated to her ship and that she was able to write fanfics about them. (something that I am not brave enough yet to do)

I will say, without giving anything away, that there were certain details of the story that I was definitely not anticipating. I thought I had the entire plot figured out pretty early on in the book, yet I was still pleasantly surprised by what happened in the end. This isn't a book just for fans, it isn't just a book for teens, this is a story that everyone can enjoy and everyone can get something out of.