The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jessica Stone planned to use the Starfield reboot as a stepping stone to greatness. Unfortunately, she doesn’t feel it’s working out that way.
Afraid of being typecast, she wants to distance herself from it as much as she can, but with the sequel in the works and the fate of her character up in the air, that is becoming a challenge.
Attending the same Con that her costar, Darien, met the love of his life, Elle Wittimer, at the previous year, she begins to feel overwhelmed by the pressure of it all.
Imogen Lovelace is a fangirl attending the Con as well. A fangirl who looks surprisingly like Jessica Stone. When people end up confusing one for the other, a brilliant life swap takes place.
Imogen is hoping to save her favorite character, Princess Amara, from being wiped out of the Starfield universe forever. Certainly, Jessica, who played Amara on screen would agree?
We follow the two girls as they swap lives and learn the valuable lesson of, the grass is not always greener on the other side of that damn fence.
I was so happy to return to ExcelsiCon and the whole fan vibe surrounding it. For me, this one wasn’t quite as enjoyable as Geekerella.
I legit swooned over that for a week!
While I did still like this a lot, Ashley Poston’s writing is just so fun, I think it suffered a bit because I don’t really know the story of The Prince and the Pauper.
Obviously, this is not the book’s fault, it is mine.
One of the things I loved so much about Geekerella was all the little details connected to the original Cinderella story. To me, these were like finding little Easter eggs throughout. I loved it!
I still had a lot of fun with this book, don’t get me wrong, just not as much.
I am really looking forward to Book 3, a Beauty and the Beast retelling! Heck, I know that story like I wrote it myself.
To the stars, Ashley Poston!