Confessions of a Fangirl by Kirsten S. Blacketer.
4/4

This was a fun read.
I loved the cover and the premise was fun.

This was a cute story. I loved the aspect of the whole fanfiction. Being obsessed with a character as a book reader. Makes me feel not so alone

It was a fast and cute read! Nothing "new" but it was a Nice reading snack!
Would definitely recommend!

Reading Confessions of a Fangirl felt a bit like someone had planted a secret camera & was writing about my fandom loves. I can relate to Jen’s getting so far into a new fandom that it takes over her life. While I never was quite as deep as Jen, my fandoms have brought me friends from around the world. I felt it was a bit of a slow start, but once the story got going, I couldn’t stop.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this book!

This book was interesting. I did not have a set mindset for how this book was going to go. It was good, but was not my favorite.

Un libro que se lee rápido pero que no se disfruta tanto.
Si hay algo que amo es que los personajes interactúen entre ellos, tengan desarrollo, cosa que no pasa acá. Nuestra protagonista apenas conoce a un chabón, ya lo tiene de novio. Pestañeas, pasaron dos meses y no hay desarrollo de la relación.
Me decepcionó bastante.
ODIO EL INSTA LOVE

This workplace, insta-love story is a unique read. While it has all the stuff of a typical romance story, it also has an interesting and real look into falling for a fandom and getting into it real deep. I enjoyed how these two aspects took equal leads in the story and how it focused on relationships of many kinds in it.

"Confessions of a Fangirl" is a comfort romance--light, quick, not especially deep. The cover alone tells the story, as our heroine meets a seemingly nice guy and all goes well, except she's developed an obsession with a fictional character (and the actor playing him). (It's a cute cover, but it is the cover version of a trailer that tells you a movie's plot.)

Was it a fun read? Fun enough and cute to see the references to online culture.
Did it move quickly? I think I read it in a single night--this book was essentially a Halloween mini candy bar, in the hand and then consumed entirely.
Was it something with a deep impact? Not particularly, but I don't think that was the author's intention.

With gratitude to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

This book had an extremely weak plot, as a fangirl myself I'm could not relate at all. Our main lead infuriating with little to no identity of oneself. And all the those intimate scenes where badly written and I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

I could not finish or get through this book, which was disappointing because I usually enjoy books like this. It was poorly written, and I could not get through it at all.

If you've ever read books like The Love Hypothesis or The Seat Filler and looked up from the words suddenly with the realization that *sniff sniff* this book smells like Adam Driver, you might catch a whiff of something similar within these pages.

Our main character, Jen, has just started two new relationships--one with a very real man she works with, and one with the hunky star of a space opera that plays the brooding villain. She navigates the fandom, the ships, the fan fiction, and even the toxicity that seeps into every decent part of the internet. As her time fills with her obsession and her shelves fill with fandom memorabilia, she has to figure out just how to strike a balance between the real world and the world of a Fangirl.

This book is a quick, easy read with the very first chapter creating a storyline quickly to suck you in, and it was written for you if:
1) You've ever read or written fan fiction
2) You've found yourself watching every single film on an actor's IMDB page no matter how obscure
3) You've paid for a meet and greet at comic con

This book felt really poorly wriiten. It was a struggle read through this and I had a hard time connecting with the characters. Which is crazy because I am a fangirl... but I don't feel guilty every time I have a crush on a character. It felt weird. And the insta-relationship made the story feel incredibly cheap and unrealistic.

: "I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own."

As a fan girl (fan woman?) who constantly get lost in my Fandom I can relate to to the book lot. I did however find it hard to get into at the begining, although once I got about a quarter ways into it, I finished it in hours. Perfect for anyone that loves comic cons and has watched the same TV series once a year of over 20 years.

Jen is a business girl working her way up the corporate ladder when Shaun starts work as an executive at the same company. He is hot and he is interested! Excellent. Cue romance.

But then Jen watches the first movie in a new series - Space Vendetta! An innocent internet search on the lead actor sends Jen down a rabbit hole where she emerges as a fangirl - lost in forums, blogs, servers, buying merch.
When will she realise she is losing her real life boyfriend and friends to this obsession? What will it take to get Jen out of this hole she has dug?

This is a fun read. Really, we have all been there. We have all fangirl'ed/fanboy'ed over something in our lives. This is also an interesting look into what the fangirl world is like and how it can be both wonderful and toxic. The spice was excellent, and I am looking forward to reading more stories from Kirsten.

*Shhhhh....I am pretty sure this is a Reylo story.

Thank you so much, NetGalley for the chance to read Confessions of a Fangirl by Kirsten S. Blacketer. This book was interesting. I found myself saying "really?!" "I don't know Rick, it looks fake" or "come on woman, this guy (actor) has no idea about you!" Honestly, I wouldn't say I liked the book. Yes, I read it. but felt that the story was not real at all. I understand this is fiction, but I am a fangirl, I have fangirled all my life since I first watched power rangers, then met singers, and actors, etc. The insta-love felt rushed, and fake, it was like "oh hi, let's go eat and then be a couple." I don't think it works like that, to be in love, takes time, connection, and more. This fangirling felt more like an obsession because she let her get to that point. It was her fault, not the fandom's. I am sorry for my review, but I am giving it 3 stars because I don't want to give a bad review, but I honestly did not connect with any of the characters or the story.

I am dying over this book in the best way. If you've been or are a con kid, cosplayer, fic reader/writer, fan artist, collector, fan forum mod/lurker, read this. This is your life 'turned up to 11'.

Follow our MC Jen from the very moment of discovering a fandom to an obsessive addiction that threatens to tilt her life and loves out of balance.

This reminds me of the classic perfection that is the manga series Dramacon (I can't believe it has a15th anniversary edition. My age, it hurts.) Confessions though brings the spice like only my favorite E-rated fics can. E for Explicit btw, not E for Everyone 😉

It was an interesting book and I think the message it was getting across about getting lost as many fangirls do was a good one. However the book was pretty awkward. It was hard to get into at first. And the characters aren’t very like able.

I needed something light and fun to read and this worked perfectly. This is the kind of read that feels like a cozy blanket that you can just lose yourself into. There is some conflict though with obsessive behavior but it is handled with kindness and understanding. I read this book in just a few days and will be reading the rest of this tie-in series.

I received an eArc from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Not for me. I really didn't like the main character, and her descent into fandom obsession was too off-putting for me.

I did like that this tackled the darker side of fandom. So many books only focus on the fun, positive side of fandom with characters that innately know how to balance fandom and real life, so I liked that this captured the obsessive pull that can exist.

This also had more smut than I had expected. I don't like reading smut, so I skip over those sections, but since this was a novella, this meant I ended up skipped over a pretty sizeable chunk of the story. This was my fault for not investigating the content more before requesting, but it doesn't change that I didn't enjoy needing to skip so much over the story.

Confessions of a fan girl is a fun read! It shows how some of us are really prone to losing ourselves in reality. Some of the portions of this book are more awkward then fun but I did enjoy the book overall either way!