lauren3210

I just finished reading this book, and now I have way too many Drarry feels. I really enjoyed it, it was fun and cute, while at the same time exploring just how difficult it can be trying to navigate new places when you spend most of your time paralysed by social anxiety (which I do). I liked that the fanfic wasn't made fun of, and that it wasn't just left behind, as though it was just a silly thing Cath did to avoid growing up. I liked how her world didn't change so much as it just expanded, and that she didn't have to make a choice between fannish things and the real world, but rather learn that she could have both.

I think you kind of have to be a bit zen about your own place in fandom to not feel a bit defensive over it while reading this book, because there are times when other characters are a bit dismissive of the concept, and there are times when Cath's obsession over it comes across as wrong, which made me roll my eyes a little. But I thought that on the whole, the subject was dealt with very respectfully.

More importantly however, the fandom Cath wrote fiction for was so obviously a very thinly veiled parody of Harry Potter, and the little excerpts of her Harry/Draco Simon/Baz fics have made me crave some good drarry stories, which I haven't read since Erised (I got a bit burnt out). So, I'm going to go find some good ones, be back later!

Borrowed from inglevine and indyonblue

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