The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston Book Review
“Sometime the stories we need are the ones that can show us a happy ending and make us feel whole and welcome and loved. And that, I think, is the true magic of Starfield, of watching twenty Amaras through a small camera lens strike the same pose, of howling a theme song off-key, of debating its economy and its politics and its world-building and whether Carmindor’s uniform is really the perfect shade of blue. That’s the part of Starfield I never saw before, that magic, weird, and wondrous part that I now want to protect.”
(pg 286)
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Author: Ashely Poston
Genre: Sci-fi Romance
Series: Once Upon a Con book 2
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Synopsis
The Prince and the Pauper gets a modern makeover in this adorable, witty, and heartwarming young adult novel set in the Geekerella universe by national bestselling author Ashley Poston.
Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: save her favorite character, Princess Amara, from being killed off from her favorite franchise, Starfield. The problem is, Jessica Stone—the actress who plays Princess Amara—wants nothing more than to leave the intense scrutiny of the fandom behind. If this year’s ExcelsiCon isn’t her last, she’ll consider her career derailed.
When a case of mistaken identity throws look-a-likes Imogen and Jess together, they quickly become enemies. But when the script for the Starfield sequel leaks, and all signs point to Jess, she and Imogen must trade places to find the person responsible. That’s easier said than done when the girls step into each other’s shoes and discover new romantic possibilities, as well as the other side of intense fandom. As these “princesses” race to find the script-leaker, they must rescue themselves from their own expectations, and redefine what it means to live happily ever after.
Synopsis
Spoilers about The Princess and the Fangirl and Avengers Endgame Contained Below
Once upon a con in a far away galaxy,
This book to put it cheesily—no that’s not a word, but if selfie can be a word, cheesily can be too—-out of this world.
I thought I enjoyed the second book, but I genuinely enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I really loved the character arcs of both the female leads in this book and how you see them beginning to understand each other because they swap lives, and you know how they say you never understand a person until you walked a mile in their shoes? Well, I truly believe in that because it took Imogen and Jess walking miles in each others shoes to understand what the other side felt and thought. And I think when you really put yourself in someone else’s situation, you stop being so biased and one sided towards your strong beliefs, but you are stronger for looking at how they might feel something too.
With that said, I just want to start with saying, I’m a fangirl through and through and I used to be soooo embarrassed to admit that, “Oh, I’m a fangirl,” because then people would associate me with a crazed lunatic girl, jumping and screaming at the drop of a hat. But over the years, I have come to wear that title as a badge of honor because at the end of the day, I am a fangirl and that makes me a person who has an immense passion for what I love and a community of others like me who have that same love. There’s nothing stronger than an a mass love of people who are passionate and dedicated and that’s what makes fangirls strong——and fanboy’s too 😉
Imogen is one of us.
She’s a fangirl through and through and loves Starfield with every fiber of her being. If there’s one thing else I should mention, this review is going to parallel a lot with my love of Marvel movies and the entire cinematic universe because my MCU loving self watched Avengers Endgame before reading this and I walked out of that movie the most heartbroken, the most empowered, the most visceral, and the most gracious I could have ever walked out of a movie theater. And let me tell you, I honest to gosh didn’t know what to do with myself for at least two hours after watching that movie because I was sooooo impacted by everything that I just had to collect my thoughts.
🛑 So this review is going to have Endgame spoilers if you didn’t see the warning before 🛑
So be warned!!!
But back to my review and how this ties into my Endgame. The thing is Imogen loves this character in Starfield, Princess Amara, played by Jessica or Jess Stone. So Imogen starts this whole #SaveAmara initiative to bring back Princess Amara from the dead when the producers killed her off as per how the comic books go. Imogen gets 5,000 signatures on this project and has so many online and in real life supporters, she even has buttons that she passes out everywhere she goes, trying to add more followers to her movement. If there is one thing you can’t deny in this world, it’s a fangirls drive. And Imogen is the most driven to save Princess Amara because Imogen sees herself in the character. She sees Amara as someone who speaks and acts out for herself when times gets tough—–Imogen sees herself represented and inspired by Amara and that’s why she wants to keep Amara around in the fandom.
And I bet we’ve all had that moment where we related to a fictional character in a book or movie where we saw ourselves in so deeply and it disheartened us so much when that character left or was written off, because in a way it feels like part of us is written off too? Personally, I see myself in a variety of characters, but can’t pinpoint just one person who I have felt deeply connected to, but what about you? What fictional character have you seen yourself in? But I can understand Imogen’s desire to keep that character around for the happiness and joy that that person gives you. In connection with Endgame, I was elated that Captain America survived through it all, but to see him grow old and be written off like that was hard to accept at first because, gosh, it’s Captain Freaking America and we love America’s butt, I’m I right? 🤪 But in all honesty, it’s characters like Iron man and Captain America that I don’t have a personal connection to, but I admire so much for the way they fight in adversity, have hope in the darkness, and the way they stand up for what’s right. And those are all attributes I will miss with MCU going forward. But I know there will be characters who will embody those characters in MCU afterwards, so the story goes on, life goes on.
And for the longest time, Imogen was so adamant about saving Amara, that when Jess goes to her to switch places, all Imogen is thinking about is what she can get out of it: saving Amara.
As mentioned before, Jess is the person who plays Princess Amara of Starfield. In the beginning of the book, I can thoroughly say even I wasn’t a big fan of her and I didn’t even know how good of an actress she was, but she just seemed very uptight and stuck up in some ways. In a way I can understand why she would come across that way because the Hollywood life created this character of “Jessica Stone” that Jess was playing along with for so long, that she didn’t even know who she was. All Jess knew was that she LOATHED Starfield because she didn’t want to be tied down to a franchise her whole life when she could branch out to other movies—-expanding her career. Kind of like Robert Downey Jr. or Chris Evan not wanting to be tied down to MCU forever when they can do other independent movies. In the beginning there was this one interview Jess does when she roasts the original Starfield actress, Natalia Ford, because of how after playing Princess Amara, Natalia didn’t have much a career afterwards and how she didn’t want to be like that. I thought that was pretty rude of Jess to say even if it wasn’t intended to be rude, but gosh she should have watched her mouth because she had no right to say that Natalia’s career bombed because she was apart of a franchise.
I guess that’s another reason Jess kind of rubbed me the wrong way also.
To say the least, because Princess Amara was written off, Jess was relieved because she could explore her career, but she’s not all in the clear yet.
Then comes the moment when Imogen gets mistaken as Jess and gets carried up to do a panel and then Jess gets mad at her, but it’s not like Imogen wanted to be on that panel, so in my eyes Jess’s anger was kind of unwarranted. Coupled with that anger, Jess gets handed this secret envelope from one of the producers, Amon, and you know what Jess does with that envelope?
She throws it in the freaking trash!
She threw away a highly confidential script from the most popular show in this world, in the trash of a hotel that’s swarming with people who are going to a fan convention!
Smart move Jess 😳
That’s like Robert Downey Jr. throwing away the Endgame script at Comic Con.
So it’s no surprise when script leaks start making an appearance all over Twitter. You gotta love the power of Twitter in books and in real life.
And Jess is freaking out because she knows that the reason behind the script leaks was because she nonchalantly threw away the script of the most popular show and someone happened to have found it. It’s kind of ironic that she wanted to get rid of Starfield world in terms of her career, but if anyone found out that she was behind the leaked script because she threw it away, no one would want to work with her in Hollywood. Who would want to work with an actress who hates her role so much that she threw it away so carelessly? Yea, no one.
Hence, the switch.
Imogen is going to pretend to be Jess so that she can go look for the script unnoticed at the convention center (but Imogen doesn’t know that), while Imogen tries to advocate to save Amara.
So let’s talk about Jess as Imogen first because I really enjoyed Jess as Imogen. We really started to see Jess let loose and relax knowing that she didn’t have this pressure to be the perfect Hollywood star. We got to see Jess sitting down and enjoying a free pretzel from a nice old man and we got to see her really contemplate her thoughts and her feelings. Before switching lives with Imogen, one of the things her best friend/assistant, Ethan Tanaka asked her was, “Are you happy?”
And that’s such a mundane question.
So simple.
But yet, it’s probably the hardest question anyone can answer sometimes because happiness comes and goes. For Jess who has done millions of interviews on live television, this was the one question that caught her off guard and that she didn’t know the answer to. So as Imogen, she really started to explore happiness and was she really happy with who she was and with her life at the moment. Based on what I think I know of Jess, I think she wasn’t truly happy with herself and her life. She didn’t like the role people had her play and all she ever focused on was the hate and negativity, never seeing the positive aspects of her job. So that made her dislike her job and herself because people would lambast her with hate and ridicule.
Her perspectives about her role in Starfield and in the world really started to change when she saw those group of girls dressed up as different versions of how they perceived Amara.
“There are two dozen Princess Amaras smirking back at me, all of whom look different—-different skin colors and body types and sexualities and gender identifications. Princess Amaras who have gone through the Black Nebula and those who led the Nox King’s military and those who fell in love with Carmindors and Zorines and Eucis. But they all have one thing in common:
They love who they are as Amara. They love themselves.”
(pg 142)
When Jess took their picture, she saw them as individuals who all had a love of a character whom they saw different qualities of themselves in, but they just represented the character (Amara) differently to reflect themselves. Jess used to only see herself as Natalia Ford’s shadow and how she would never be good enough to the fandom who liked the original cast, but this really opened up her eyes to make her see that Amara was more than just the purple dress and tiara she wore, Amara was a symbol to women and men alike of a strong character. In a world that can be so complicated and dark, it’s always great to have someone strong and confident to look up to and be showcased like that in the media.
Jess’s horizon expanded even more when she met Harper, Imogen’s online pen pal.
From the minute Jess’s heart rate started to sky rocket and the butterflies started to flutter in her chest around Harper, I knew, I KNEW, Jess like liked Harriet and I thought that was soooo cute! Because if Imogen and her never switched places in the first place, she would have never met Harriet and fallen in love—-it was fate.
I really enjoyed the moment Jess had with Harper at the party where they belted out the Starfield theme song and got booed at by people. It was such a fun scene because Jess literally couldn’t care less what people thought of her in that moment because she was having such good time and she had Harper at her side. It was so good to see Jess let loose. I also liked how Harper took her back to her hotel suite to makes Jess her world famous ramen from her luggage 😂 That part cracked me up because I remember growing up, my parents would always pack ramen in our hotel luggage and we would eat it for dinner too. What good times! Anyway, I also thought it was funny how Harper poured the water into the ramen and she was like, “Seven minutes until al dante” like the ramen was pasta or something.
What I also liked about this whole night was when Jess took Harper up to the roof and they star gazed toughener. I thought it was pretty interesting how if Jess wasn’t an actress, she said she would be an astronomer. Maybe that’s what drew her to the role of Amara in the first place, or maybe Amara made her realize how much she liked the stars. Either way, I liked how they just had a nice conversation like normal teenage girls falling in love on the roof. The next morning it was super cheesy, but cute how Jess woke up in bed next to Harper and loved seeing her smile with the sunshine on her face. I knew nothing more happened than just sleeping side by side together, but there was something highly intimate about the scene and waking up next to someone like that.
It was that morning at the convention when all was well in the world that Jess said the three words that really just made my heart swell in the best way: I was happy.
It’s so hard to be truly happy these days and I could just feel it when Jess said those three words, how she truly meant it and to me that’s such HUGE leap forward compared to how she felt when the book started.
I love seeing other people happy 💛
I also liked how in the beginning Jess would try to pass out #SaveAmara pins, but no one would take them and Harper would give her a strange look. I also liked how Jess tired to understand the big deal about Starfield and people who were “fangirls”—-why they were so obsessive about things? So she asked Harper why she liked fan art and Harper says something along the lines of how she likes seeing people like her on the screen—–that people like them exist.
And there’s this one part that really drove home the whole idea of a fandom to Jess when Harper says something about how it’s ridiculous that the “only meaningful stories are the ones that are deep and pondering and boring, aging all this nonsense without ever saying anything” are the ones that area always the most popular and showcased to the world. But Harper believed that other stories like far away galaxies like Starfield needed to be told too.
“We need those stories, too. Sotires that tell us we can be bold and brash and make mistakes and still come out better on the other side. Those are the kind of stores I want to see, and read, and tell, ‘Look to the stars. Aim. Igine’ —that means something to me, you know?”
(pg 235)
And I do know. As someone who loves MCU, which isn’t a realistic kind of story, it’s still a story I highly love with a passion because there’s something so uplifting about watching a band of superheroes who came from nothing fight against everything and to fight for the world—and in this book, there’s something inspiring about Princess Amara saving the galaxy. And sure movies like The Fault in Our Stars and The Notebook are moving and powerful and realistic than a man in an iron suit or a guy with a shield or a galactic princess, but sometimes it’s nice to see how something highly imaginative can be humanizing. There was one part in Endgame where Thor talks to his mom and she tells him that he shouldn’t feel like a failure because he’s only human and people make mistakes and to me that really just reminded me of this quote in the book because no matter how powerful a person is, as Hannah Montana says “Everyone makes mistakes, everyone has those days” and Nobody’s perfect! 😅
Jess hearing all of this made her see that maybe being Princess Amara wasn’t such a bad thing and that maybe she is worth saving.
Which brings us to Imogen.
You would think she would be having a grand old time as a famous person, but spoiler alert (not really), she wasn’t. If you could switch places with any celebrity who would you be? [Mine: Taylor Swift or Selena Gomez].
First, there was the preppy assistant Ethan who’s a real prude for a boy who just graduated high school. He wears suits and ties, always has his hair slicked back, he’s too serious too much of the time, and he irons and cleans when he’s stressed. If being an assistant doesn’t work out for him, I can really see a career going for him as an “Iron Man” 😉 or a launderer.
When Imogen first met Ethan, she thought he was H-O-T hot until he was N-O-T not. She realized he was very ramrod and has a very old soul. I loved the banter they had with him calling her a rapscallion and her teasing him that he got his insults from a 80s book or something. It was hilarious!
The pool moment was kind of weird if you ask me, but very steamy at the same time. It’s kind of funny how iron pressed Ethan actually just waltzed right into the pool without a second thought to join Imogen in there. We all knew they wanted to kiss each other, but he didn’t want to admit his feelings for her. At the same time, Imogen was getting these mixed ideas about how he only saw her as Jess and liked Jess more than her. This becomes one of the defenses for Imogen as to why she doesn’t allow herself to like Ethan because she never feels good enough.
That’s the thing with Imogen: she’s insecure.
As we all are.
She thinks that she’s not good enough. She lives in the shadow of her student council, future quarterback of the football team brother Milo. She doesn’t have any awards or anything that makes her stand out except maybe her pink hair. But she does have a strong love of Starfield and a movement to save her favorite character—she has something worth fighting for. And that’s what she wants to do: fight for Amara; fight for herself.
And in this insecurity, she doesn’t believe guys like Ethan can like her. It also stems from how she’s receptive of guys in general because this guy she liked named Jasper stood her up at the Elexicon ball without a reason. He never even texted her back to apologize! That’s how you know he’s not worth your time ladies and gents.
But Ethan is a real one. He called her sick with worry —worried enough to start ironing when she stormed off—-but he had her fake number so he couldn’t truly reach her.
Besides her love-hate relationship with Ethan, she also starts to see that being Jessica Stone is not all that it is mucked up to be. On the panel when Darien is announced to be written off the script because of her death in the show, original fans go nuts and start shouting lucrative things to blame her. There’s always the trashy side of a fandom and Imogen never associated herself with that side, but when actually faced with it, it leaves her disgusted and makes her question is this the reason Jess hates Starfield so much? All this negativity.
Then there’s the meet and greet when Jasper makes an appearance. And I cannot tell you how much I LOATHED him in that moment! The utter stuck up, obnoxious way he butt into the meet and greet and literally tried to make a grab for “Jess’s” Imogen’s butt was DISGUSTING! I can’t fathom that some celebrities actually have to go through that and have to live with that. If you ever go to a meet and greet people, please be kind, courtesy, and respectful because the people you are meeting are real people and doesn’t give you any right to feel them up like a toy. UGH, how disgusting! What was worse was how he thought it was Jess and didn’t even know it was Imogen, the girl he stood up.
But you know what I LOVED about this scene?
The part where Ethan goes all Karate kid—-excuse me ‘Mortal Kombat’—and puts Jaspers grabby hands where the sun don’t shine and shoves him out of the meet and greet to defend the honor of Imogen! I loved that!! Who knew that that rapscallion had it in him to kick some majo💛r butt! We love.
Imogen was shook by the whole thing and creeped out. She felt violated and who wouldn’t feel violated in that kind of way. And this puts another thing in perspective to her in how maybe Jess has to deal with these kind of things on a regular basis with all the meet and greets, making her dislike her job more. For Jess’s sake, I hope no one has pulled a Jasper on her!
Then comes Vance Reigns as if Imogen hasn’t seen the worse in men already.
I swear she has some bad luck with some pretty trashy men. But Ethan fought for her. That’s the type of man every girl needs.
Vance Reigns sees how shook she is and uses this moment of weakness and fear as a way to get ‘Jess’ to escape with him to a diner and eat dinner. Then Imogen finds out it’s all some publicity ploy to boost both their reputations and she literally does the diner thing that all girls in the movies do, which I loved: She dumped the milkshake over his head! 🥤
Milkshakes are not made for drinking. They are made for pouring over a jerks head, I’m I right ladies?
But I loved that whole part! And the fact that she not only did it once, but twice, utter greatness!
Then Jess shows up to collide worlds with Imogen to team up for one final revelation and battle: expose the script leaker and #Save Amara—–both of which were their initial goals in the first place. But this time, it’s Jess who wants to save Amara and when she says that, I couldn’t have felt more elated or proud of Jess in seeing how far she’s come in hating her role, and now wanting to save it.
It’s amazing what a day can do.
The plan to save Amara was quite a fun little thing. I don’t understand why Jess had to steal the original Amara dress from the museum when she could have just asked the convention or the security if she could use it or something instead of stealing it. And even if Darien did create a distraction for Jess and Milo to steal, I bet there were security cameras in the convention center that caught them! One of the things that was pleasantly surprising about this scene was how the pretzel man—-the man who’s been at the convention for a long time and gave Jess the free pretzel in the beginning—was the original Carmindor. Who would have thought that a infamous actor of a popular space show would be selling pretzels at a con? I think that’s cool. But kind of weird how no one recognized him until he was wearing a tropical outfit. I don’t know how a tropical outfit sheds light on a celebrity?
As Jess is stealing the original Starfield dress, Imogen is pretending to be Jess one more time on the panel with Darien, Vance, Amon, and the whole cast and crew. Working behind scenes is Bram, Milo’s boyfriend, who says that he can’t legally hack into the script leakers phone, but can use an anonymous number to call the script leakers phone. Everyone suspects that it’s Vance for obvious reasons—-he’s an obnoxious prick.
But then Amon, the director’s phone starts blowing up with calls.
It was him!
Honestly, I didn’t know who was leaking the script, but the fact that it was the director who was leaking the script as a way to frame Jess to ruin her career and get her off the show for good was a new all time low for directors in Hollywood. The audacity! It kind of makes me wonder though, how did he know that Jess threw away the script in the first place and that she would feel guilty for being the one who caused the leak? Was he there when she threw the script away or did he know that if he gave her the script, she would throw it away and he could blame her?
Imogen picks up what’s going on with Amon’s buzzing phone just as Jess, wearing the real regal Princess Amara outfit storms into the room in all her glory and I was LIVING! It was Jess’s great moment!!!
And what a great moment this was!
I absolutely loved the whole monologue Jess gave in front of all the Starfield fans and how she evolved so much in the past few days in realizing that Starfield is so much bigger than her and that it’s a story that needs to be told. I loved how she called out all the haters in saying that Amara belongs to the people who love her and who see themselves in her. Amara isn’t a God or Princess to look up to and put on this pedestal, but that Amara is just as human and flawed as any other person. I loved how everyone got to hear Jess say that after so long because the fandom really didn’t like her and knew she didn’t like her role. So them hearing her say all these things about her finally liking who she was and the role she was given, highlights how she now truly cares about the role and the fans can truly see that she cares. And I think that’s what any fandom wants—to see the person representing their favorite characters to love the role they’re playing and to be proud of it.
I mean if Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evan, Chris Hemsworth, or Scarlett Johansen detested their roles, it would show in their work, and I bet the fans wouldn’t like them. But we can all see through their acting, the love, the care, and the respect they have for their roles. And that’s what translates on the screen and makes us love them and who they’re playing.
Then I absolutely loved it when she walked out of that con room saying she had a girl to kiss! EEEEEKKKKK! I don’t know if that was her coming out moment, but a sis was making a bold statement and I loved how slowly, one by one, everyone follows her out of convention center to see where she’s going.
We all know where she was going.
Then Sage, from Geekerella hands her a bullhorn to get the attention of Harper amidst the crowd. I also liked how very Romeo and Juliet this whole thing was and how Jess was like, “If you don’t come down, I’ll start swinging the Starfield theme song and someone from the party joked, “Gosh please don’t make her sing!” 😂
What a savage, but we loved it.
And maybe Harper didn’t want her to sing or maybe she like liked Jess too—my bet’s on the latter—-but she goes to Jess and they kiss.
But Jess and Harper weren’t the only ones who got a happy ending.
It’s nearing 5 o’clock where Imogen promised to meet Jasper at the top of some elscaltor before the whole convention is over. When she meets Jasper she totally calls him out for feeling “Jess” up and how that was her. What was worse was how Jasper didn’t think anything wrong about it and was like, “Why would I date some nobody like you, anyway?” If Ethan was there, he would have beat that guys butt up. But Imogen did the next best thing and told him she reported his butt for sexual harassment and got him banned from the con! Then Lonny—- I missed Lonny—- comes and drags his butt away, all to me cheering in the background because that jerk face deserved it.
And then the speaker plays Elle’s dad’s voice overhead and I thought it was so cute how everyone at the con recited aim and ignite alongside the dad. I’ve never been to a convention before, but I think that’s there’s smelting special about a group of people that finish each other’s sentences like that.
Anyway, the cons over and Imogen’s ready to go home and that’s when she gets her dream love scene 😆
“I used to think that love was two people passing each other on these very escalators, heading off to different panels and different meet-and-greets, apart but together. Maybe we’d be cosplaying as Carmindor and Amara, and not Link and Zelda, and maybe we’d flash each other the Federation salute instead.
Maybe we could just smile at each other, and lock eyes, and not have to say anything at all.”
(pg 306).
She sees Ethan, dissolved hair and all, stepping on the escalator going up and she’s going down locking eyes with him and they pass each other in different directions jus like what she thought love was! I LOVED the whole cliché of it all! And then he spins around and confessed his love for her and he starts running down the escalator, trying to reach Imogen and it’s so cute because I can just imagine something straight out of the movies!
And then they actually get together where he says he loves her for her and not for Jess and the moment was just so perfect for them.
I also liked the part where Imogen had a nice chat with her brother when they were sitting on the figurine throne. The bother confesses to Imogen that he was always jealous of her and all her accomplishments—-he felt like he was living in her shadow and that’s why he wanted to be on student council and the football team to be as great as her. And I think that was so sweet because here Imogen was thinking she was never good enough like her brother when her brother thought the world of her. They have such a cute and supportive sibling relationship. And I loved how he wasn’t fooled for one second in knowing that Jess wasn’t Imogen. I bet my siblings wouldn’t have noticed a difference if I had a look alike switch lives with me for a day.
I liked that Imogen talked about being open about each other’s feelings and Milo says, “Gross, like siblings who support each other?
He loves his sister.
The ending ends on a really sweet note with Jess using Imogen’s name at the coffee shop and the barista butchering her name on purpose. Everything has calmed down and Jess is with Harper talking about their future and how she’s going to be staying in Asheville a little while longer because Amara is making her grand come back on the show. Save Amara worked!!
At the end, Imogen deleted her #SaveAmara initiative online despite having Jess support the whole idea now, but I think even if the #SaveAmara initiative is gone, there’s a part of Imogen that would be over the moon that Jess was reprising her role.
I genuinely loved the ending when Harper asks Jess if she is happy playing Amara again? And Jess’s heart asks her “Are you happy?” Jess replies that yes she was.
And again, it’s such a far way from where Jess was just a few days ago when she wasn’t.
To me this last part just cemented this overarching plot of Jess finding herself and finding happiness. I also liked how Imogen found happiness and reassurance from Ethan and her brother that she was good enough—-that she didn’t need to have a million trophies or be a celebrity to be seen. And I just loved how they both got to see each other’s lives by living in them.
It was also a good story after watching Endgame, and amazing movie because it kind of makes you understand why actors and actresses want to move on from a role they’ve been playing for a long time. Those actors and actresses want to grow and find happiness and if the role their playing isn’t making them happy then they shouldn’t be playing it. Or if a role has seen the light and it’s time to close a chapter for that character, then that’s also fine too. There was one post that I read about how Chris Evans was very emotional filming the last few scenes of Endgame and I mean how could he not when he’s devoted a good ten years to this character that has evolved as much as he did? And I think this is one of the times when a chapter closes not because he disliked his role, but because he needed to focus on himself and his personal happiness. At the end of the day, Chris wanted to focus on starting a family and someone to share his life with and if Chris wants to do that than I think that’s the most beautiful thing ever because he’s a human deserves simple love and a lifestyle. And if Chris Evans wants to find a wife, by all means I am single and I would gladly—IN A HEARTBEAT—-marry him so there’s that 😹
But I think so often we forget that there’s a human to the people who act on screen and we need to always remember to not treat them as a figurine—-on a pedestal made to glorify and to grope. We need to understand that first and foremost they’re human and they deserve to be happy and live the life they choose and if we are all true fans, that’s what we should want for these actors and actresses.
So this book meant a lot to me in terms of closure to the end of an MCU era as well as just a good book about the insights of Hollywood life. I really enjoy those types of books because it’s nice to see “celebrities” be real and to understand the struggles they might face, because even Earth’s tightest heroes are not perfect.
Anyway, if you’ve read this book, what was your favorite or least favorite part? What fandoms are you a part of and was a die hard fangirl or boy for? Let me know below in the comments as I love interacting with you all 💕
And always,
Look to the stars.
Aim.
Ignite,
Rating
4.76 Full Bloom Flowers
Characters: I loved Jess and Imogen’s character arc the most of all and I think that you really get a good perspective into both their shortcomings and how they over come them.
Plot: The idea of switching lives was good for both the main characters in really understanding each other and learning to love themselves and where they are in life.
Writing: Ashley Poston’s writing is relatable and easy to fall into
Romance: I liked the inclusiveness and diversity of this book with the different types of relationships the characters had