I WAS BORN FOR THIS: TikTok made me buy it! From the YA Prize winning author and creator of Netflix series HEARTSTOPPER

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I think the characters were incredibly well-developed. Oseman clearly knows who she’s writing and who she’s writing for. The plot was enticing which made the book incredibly hard to put down. The writing style was real, and it felt like you really were inside a teenager’s head. Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 28 October 2022 . Retrieved 28 October 2022.

O'Toole, Scarlett (14 November 2022). "TV Choice Awards 2022 full winners list as Emmerdale triumphs after touching storyline". The Mirror Online . Retrieved 15 November 2022. This story is also about friendships made on the internet. To meet their idols and go to one of their concerts, Angel and her online friend Juliet decide to meet for the first time in real life and spend the week together at Juliet’s grandma’s house. It’s both of them realising people aren’t necessarily the same on internet or irl, and it’s okay, because some of people are way more confident on the internet and shy when they have to talk to someone face to face. Your signature challenge this week,” begins Sandi, and then she lays out what’s about to happen – we have to prepare a Victoria sponge. Rowan Omondi - Lyricist and cello player for The Ark. Nineteen, Nigerian, Christian, and is secretly dating Bliss so the fandom won’t harass her. HorseLover3000 (31 March 2016). "Radio Silence by Alice Oseman – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 February 2020. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)

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The characters in this book are so diverse and that was probably my favorite thing about this book. We have Angel as the main character, she is Muslim, she is Hijabi and she is one of the biggest fans of a boy band. Angel may have the best Muslim representation I ever read! I read other Muslim characters by Muslim authors and I was disappointed because the authors tried so hard and ruined the rep! Angel however, was so easy to read and so humane! The author did not need to remind us of her being a Muslim constantly, the character was just a normal person living a normal life, she does her prayers and she did not want a guy to see her without a Hijab, but other than that she was just an ordinary person and Muslims are like that. We are normal people who read, who sing, who dance and who fanboys over bands! Only a small portion of us are extremists and there are people like them in all religions! I loved the interview they gave when they said “the fans like to overthink everything we do” and I had to agree so much! *lol* I mean JK shows his eye tattoo in an episode of RUN and ARMYs be like: OMG!!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!!?? I’m ARMY myself so I can laugh about this and say that we’re all clowns. *lol* Anyway, what I want to say with this is that the fandom rep was so damn on spot I can’t even! Haha! Alice Oseman captured it so well and I loved that by inventing Juliet and Angel she also gave room to the fandom side that’s not just screaming and fainting fangirls/boys. You’d be surprised about how many of us are actually normal people that just love our boys and their music. XD If I’d get a chance to spend a day with BTS I’d probably just hang out with them, eat good food, play silly games and talk about God and the world. Maybe I could even persuade them to play guitar or e-bass with me? *lol* So yeah, pretty normal stuff. Also since my kid is so little she’d probably be the star in the room and they’d play and goof around with her. XD Because no matter how famous they are, they are still normal (okay, they are perfect!) people and I totally agree with the sentiment that they feel like they are my friends. In difficult times their music helps me to get through the day and they always make me smile which is pretty amazing. =) So if you ever come to Austria and read this BTS, write me and I’ll invite you over for a schnitzel and potato salad. Considering the dumpling incident I better don’t invite you for roast pork and dumplings though. *lol* ;-P confessionsofabooklover (10 May 2016). "Radio Silence by Alice Oseman – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 July 2016. I felt like the description of mental illness and severe anxiety was well executed, although I don’t personally suffer from it in the same way, it seems to be what most of the anxious community goes through.

It’s another real and touching read from Alice Oseman who keeps on hitting the mark on every occasion. She reflects on important points for our generations who often feel unheard by our elders and she understands us. She listens to us. She creates characters who look, and act, and think, and feel like us. It’s refreshing and at haunting at the same time. Now I have officially booked Lister as my guy bestfriend because every minute I will spent with him I know I will never fail to laugh ! And he says some awesome shit too like this one :- We get to have a little break in the green room and Rowan gets into conversation with another contestant – a comedian, I think – while Jimmy sulks and eats a slice of Rowan’s cake. We had a free evening and got to watch it live. Well, Jimmy didn’t actually watch it – he mostly peeked at it from behind a cushion – and I did get hungry halfway through because of the pork pies and went to the kitchen to heat up last night’s leftover Chinese.Now let’s talk about the pic of Rowan and Jimmy sleeping together in their bed. *lol* OR let’s just talk about how close they are as friends! I mean it’s so obvious that they love each other a lot, just not in the way the fandom wants them to. There’s no Jowan, but I really adored their interactions and how much they seemed to care about each other. You can see that they are really close and that they are super comfortable around each other. I’m like that with my besties too and a very cuddly person. (Do whatever you want with that random info. *lol*) So for me to see their strong bond was really nice and even though they argued quite a lot in the ending it was only because they cared so much about each other. =) Right now I am anything but calm plus I have been crying for an hour thinking about this book, "my boys" and everything I have put my heart in for them!

I listened to this book on audiobook, which I would highly recommend. There aren't any special effects or extra narrators or anything, but it is simple and performed well. I was engaged the entire time while listening, and when I wasn't listening- I wanted to be. to continue on the characters - mental health and personal issues and struggles doesn't a personality make. there's nothing that makes any of these charaters stand out, other than the muslim rep. i don't know their journeys really, nor do i know their personality at all. they're only separated by their diagnoses and role in the band. that's literally it. even for all the talk of family, we don't really get a lot of familial moments with the band members who are almost always in conflict, or isolated in some other way (mostly by their mental health issues tbh). For such an overthinker, Jimmy can be extremely dumb sometimes, which I kind of love because it puts us more on equal footing. A million thanks to Harper Collins UK for sending me a review copy of this book. This did not, in any way, influence my thoughts or rating of this.This is a small, silly spin-off story about characters from I Was Born for This, written as a treat for readers in March 2020. This story is not necessarily canon, but would occur – I think – about eight months before the events of IWBFT. I hope you enjoy it! IPA Reveals Nominations for the 27th Satellite™ Awards". International Press Academy. 8 December 2022 . Retrieved 8 December 2022. The idea of maybe giving as much love to their own selves as they give to the fandom. Love thyself. Is it a valid reason to not give the book a rating? Yes, because it's my review and my rating and my feelings and I can do what I want.

Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark too. He’s their frontman – and playing in a band is all he’s ever dreamed of doing. It’s just a shame that recently everything in his life seems to have turned into a bit of a nightmare.Alongside writing and drawing, Alice enjoys playing the piano semi-proficiently, Pokémon games, and purchasing too many Converse. With no real understanding of the wider social/societal/systemic causes and implications of media addiction, the book falls completely flat, and the reader is constantly grappling with glaringly obvious, very banal questions. Since having "no life" is just a figure of speech, surely she must do SOMETHING besides being on the internet? If she's so deeply into fandom, does she have a favorite TV show, game, anime, celebrity or book? Does she even read? Does she have feelings of any kind that are not related to The Ark? If yes, what are they? If not, why? How does that impact her lived experience? (I am truly grateful, however, that this protagonist doesn't have a love interest. No absurd romance subplot in YA, who woulda thunk it?) We are told she hasn't been in love before. How does that make her feel, besides "lol"? Is she asexual/-romantic? How does that impact her life? In the same way, Jimmy is trans and gay, but the only thing we know about his experience is him feeling kind of weird about being outed to an international audience at 16, and little things like injecting testosterone. I imagine being trans and having transitioned to be a huge, huge deal. My being gay is already a big deal to me, but it is far less stigmatised than transgenderism, and at no point did it involve altering my body, so I am fairly confident in saying that this must play a bigger part in his life than we are told. We get it, she really likes that band, but when she says something along the lines of "They help me get out of bed when I feel miserable" or "They make my stupid boring life worth living", I would maybe... like to know why she feels that way? I want to see some personality besides "outsider, fangirl, muslim and nice person". That's not even a vague approximation of a character. Lister Bird - The Ark’s drummer. Eighteen, white, bi, pan or some MGA, and I believe is dealing with depression and alcohol abuse.