As we’re forcing our way out of the crowd, Jimmy clutches onto my hoodie with one hand, like a scared toddler. We are The Little Contemporary Corner, made up of Sarah and Sophie, best friend book bloggers from Manchester. His identity is not pivotal for the plot, but it adds color: it is not a problem for the world, for his best friends (and bandmates) nor his fans, but it is something that had repercussion in his life. This is my spoilery spoiler warning and if you haven’t read the book yet, I’d recommend to turn around and to head in the other direction. If she can’t be found reading or watching a TV show with her cat on her lap, you’ll find her at the cinema or out taking photos and exploring!

Now if I get a chance I will make her my bestfriend , like she is so cool and awesome , I can spend nights with her obsessing over the boys. Oseman also has a particular gift for bringing the characters on the page alive in a really believable way, especially those Gen Z characters. From this point of view, it perhaps makes sense that teenage fans construct their sense of self around these friendly, smiley, (and maybe in love with you! Well, I didn’t realise you were some sort of fandom celebrity,” he says with the fakest smile I’ve ever seen. I mean it’s so obvious that they love each other a lot, just not in the way the fandom wants them to.This book was also so relatable; it was almost like looking into a mirror and seeing an alternate version of me. Whenever I think about that scene I imagine myself meeting BTS in a toilet like that and haha to say it would make me super uncomfortable would be putting it mildly. It might have been the way I connected with the fandom aspects of the story, but I adored the character build up and the way they were introduced with such ease. I think both Angel and her mother are right; Angel’s feelings are valid and true at the time, but she does eventually realize that it’s unhealthy to make a boy band her entire personality- she has to be her own person too.

But dreams don’t always turn out the way you think and when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be. The dual-perspective novel is told from the points of view of Angel – a diehard fan of music group The Ark and The Arks frontman Jimmy. So it’s no wonder Jimmy almost broke under the pressure and I’m glad he decided to pull in the reins.This is identical to the Sumthing Else release of the CD, despite the timing corresponding to the HD remaster release of JOURNEY on PS4. I was reminded of my NSYNC days when reading this, remembering how I collected their merch and thought that going to one of their concerts was the greatest moment of my life at the time.

I Was Born for This was released in the UK in 2018, and will be released with a new hardcover in the US on October 18 this year.

It’s possible that, as a result, I unfairly considered extreme fandom to be a bit weird, and for boy band super fans to be obsessive and single-minded. The book also acknowledge how adults kinda mock and not coincide with the idea of fangirling but this thought wasn't shoved in our faces by author she handled it really well.

And I know that people actually do that in 2018, but it is so gross that it honestly just made me want to take a hot shower and scrub my skin every time Angel and Juliet would talk about it. I could sit here and type an essay about all of the different relationships in the book because I love them all but instead I'll focus on (for me anyway) the two most important: the quiet understanding between Angel and Jimmy, and Rowan, Jimmy and Lister.XD I’m sure one day my kid and I will have such an argument too and I can only hope that she’ll know that I love her no matter what.