Movie star Jessica Stone can t go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore except that she s contractually obligated. She never dreamed she d be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara, and for better or worse, Princess Amara has Jessica Stone s face. But. it turns out, so does someone else. Imogen Weatherby is just another Starfield fan hitting up ExcelsiCon except that she happens to look an awful lot like Jessica Stone (and no, you re not the first one to point it out). When Jess spots Imogen, she has a brilliant idea: swap places. Jessica can live her life out of the spotlight while Imogen pretends to be her on the rest of the con circuit, and Imogen can ditch her crappy barista job and finally get to see something beyond her hometown. But Jess doesn t anticipate actually liking Imogen s life or Imogen s gorgeous best friend, Hana, who might just be the person Jess needs to forget about her ex. And Imogen loves being Jess Stone and might even love this super talented artist, Tamaki, who she keeps bumping into. Except Tamaki thinks she s Jessica Stone. When an obsessive fan finds out the truth and threatens to expose Jess for the fake geek girl she is, it will take both Jess and Imogen to stand up for the truth: That there is no such thing as a fake geek girl. That if you are a fan, then you are accepted. And that even if you aren t a fan, you are worthy. That you are not invisible. That what you love matters. From the acclaimed author of Geekerella, this geeky spin on The Prince and the Pauper is a perfect story for geek girls of every fandom.
Let me tell you that Ashley Poston really gets what it means to be a diehard fan of something. I can't get over the way she brings these characters to life who look and act so similarly to myself and people that I know. Loving something so deeply that you have to write your own stories about it, make art about it, or hell even write songs about it is truly an incredible thing. Ashley Poston knows that down to her core and it comes through in her writing. I will admit that I am not a huge contemporary fan, it is hard for me to enjoy a book that doesn't have dragons or wizards. But the thing about Ashley's books is that even though they are contemporaries they are filled to the brim with magic. I always feel as though I am right there with the characters at the con and I can feel the wonder that comes with being somewhere so magical.
I really enjoyed our main characters Imogen and Jess, they were such polar opposites in many ways and the fact that they managed everything they did was a joy to watch unfold. The romances in this book were phenomenal, near the end of the book I was all but squealing on my lunch at work.
I think that more than anything shows how amazing these books are, because at the end of the day, all I ever want is book that gives me the same range of emotions as a good fanfic.
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