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The third novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless, Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – soon to be a major Netflix series.

For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark’s fandom has given her everything she loves – her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world.

Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He’s their frontman – and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing.

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.

A funny, wise, and heartbreakingly true coming of age novel. I Was Born for This is a stunning reflection of modern teenage life, and the power of believing in something – especially yourself.

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HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
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3 May 2018
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Praise for SOLITAIRE:

‘The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age’ – The Times

‘The most honest and authentic account of modern teenage life that you’ll read this year… outstanding contemporary fiction with appeal to fans of John Green’ – The Bookseller

‘A very authentic, teenage voice’ – Sunday Times

‘Solitaire is an extraordinary novel … [Oseman] has captured her characters’ rage, humour and insecurity with aplomb.’ –The Financial Times

‘Oseman proves herself a clever, witty writer’ – Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Alice Oseman’s debut novel, Solitaire was published to critical acclaim – “The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age” The Times. Like her characters, Alice was once a sarcastic teenager who spent all of her time on internet. Now she spends all of her time being sarcastic and on the internet.

Alice is from Rochester, Kent. She is active on Twitter and Tumblr – and her writing has been significantly inspired by behavioural trends on Tumblr.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NC01XAZ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks (3 May 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 944 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 401 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #89,539 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,468 in Children's Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #13,409 in Children's Literature & Fiction (Books)

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makingoutwithbooks

Fandom is beautiful but not obsession ❤️💕

Reviewed in India on 7 March 2019

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Not to be dramatic but i would treasure this book forever with me like forever & ever. this book was everything i always wanted to read
it was such a great heartwarming read for me with all those amazing characters....now i really feel like i was born for this,born to read this beautifully written book by Alice Oseman !
Okay now i know that i can’t stop praising bout how great this book was, i would literally give it say like 1000 stars if it’s possible that’s how much i love this book......Three words to describe this book delightful, pleasing & emotional !
~Fandom it’s not like what we generally think & celebrity stars are not what we assume them to be
~The entire book is narrated by two main characters Angel Rahimi & Jimmy Kaga-Ricci
~Angel the girl who’s drown deep into the fandom of The Ark- a musical boy band trio......Ark is literally the entire world to Angel
~Jimmy the heart of the Ark & a best pal to Rowan & lister(other two members of the band)
~Angel loves jimmy not like infatuation but she feels him & his music
~Jimmy transgender boy who’s struggling to get his freedom & privacy from public
~Ark fandom somehow bothers jimmy making him more anxious & often ending him with panic attacks
~Angel made a friend(juliet) online, a friend with who she can share everything she loves(mostly bout Ark) cuz of similar interest in being greatest fans of Ark
~The journey of this whole book takes place in a single week & as each day passes you’ll get yourself drown deep into the book that you couldn’t stop thinking bout it
~This is an amazing story of friendship & relationships yet beautiful & honest which indeed makes you cry & overwhelm at few moments......gosh it was so intense at few parts i really cried like really....!
~ I wouldn’t exactly call this book as a same fangirl stuff like book where there’s overly obsession for a celebrity and all you know......but this book surprised me it wasn’t like that it was entirely different yet so astounding !
~It also speaks bout sexuality with many lgbtq characters in it i just loved all their representations & mainly bout what it’s like being a transgender
~I totally relate to Angel & i do understand what’s it’s like to make a celebrity musician everything to escape your reality & to love them like anything, not everyone can understand how complex it’s to make someone everything in your life even though you don’t have a damn idea bout anything who actually they’re or what’s going on in their life & you haven’t even met them in real life & all............
~As i said i’m gonna treasure this book forever with me 😍❤️ Alice Oseman you’re so talented & amazing i appreciate that you came up with something different & amazing story

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Ashwini A.

A really interesting book

Reviewed in India on 20 October 2018

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This book dealt with one of the most interesting and alarming themes, fan culture. I have been the kind of fan that is described in the book and frankly, I still am. The level of fannish things might have gone down a bit but there is a reason I could so easily relate to the characters in this. That brings me to this point, it also gives a point of view of the people fans of fangirling over. How it affects them in different ways and how it can mostly be harmful for them in the long run. It also gave such a good example of friendships in general both offline and online. How, sometimes, fans almost equate their fandoms to religion or the characters/ people to deities. It was an uncomfortable read, if I am being honest but in a good way. (Is there a good way to be uncomfortable?)

It also talks about how many fans sort of depend on the fandoms to live their lives, or rather escape from the harsh realities of life. In the book Angel certainly is trying her very best to do just that, just to feel something, a sense of belonging that she doesn’t get to feel in her real life. Then there’s the diverse characters, with their own problems which seem very real and some of which we can even relate to. One of the plus points and also funnily enough, a minus point is the harsh reality of shipping real people together and sort of fetishizing m/m relationships? It’s a real thing and unfortunately, it’s shown in all its glory. It was important that people also see this side of the fandom but at the same time, it gave me a very, very uncomfortable feeling.

Apart from the point made above, I wanted to know more about Jimmy and his friendship with Rowan and Lister. This is spoilery so if you don’t wanna know skip this point. I just wanted more closure in general, by the end of the book, I can’t say I was totally satisfied with it? I mean, Radio Silence ended in open-ended sort of way too but with it, there was at least conclusion of sorts. Like the end of a chapter in their lives, in this book, I didn’t get that feeling at all.

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Maria John Writes

Beautiful Contemporary Read with Relatable Characters

Reviewed in India on 4 June 2018

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What a wonderful book

First things first, I totally expected this book to read like one of those old One Direction Fanfictions with the leads falling in love with each other but NOOOOO it wasn’t like that at all.
We get a wonderful realistic story involving a myriad of characters who have their stories and demons but it revolves around our two main characters
Angel - A Young Girl obsessed with a band, and one of its members, Jimmy being the other voice in this story.

I can’t even describe the way this book made me feel - and at one point, I started crying as I recalled very similar thoughts of failure and self-depreciation and....well, I’m a mess at the moment.

It’s a great story about growth, and self-discovery and the importance of passion and how sometimes the things you love can become the things you don’t love anymore just because it isn’t what you thought it would end up being. It helps that these characters are so relatable and there are times where scenes could have been plucked out of your very own life.

One of the best books I’ve read all year, I’m so glad I finally picked up an Alice Oseman book. And what an absolutely perfect read it has been.

The diversity is a HUGE win for me. I don’t think I’ve seen such a diverse cast and the wonderful handling of mental illness, anxiety and the feeling of being lost in general was done so very well.

There are some slight things I didn’t like about the book, like the open ending, but it’s books like this you enjoy with a warm cup of tea and not reading it in 2.5 hours like I have.

Ps: don’t read this book at night. You won’t sleep until you’ve finished it.

Now that the tears have dried, I’ll finally go to sleep

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LJBentley

A brilliant story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2018

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Having never read an Alice Oseman novel before and basing my first choice of book in a really trivial manner (I wanted to read a book with an orange cover) I was more than pleasantly surprised with just how amazing I Was Born for This is.

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. We see the daily workings of life in a famous band and just how the lack of ordinariness can impact on your mental health. Furthermore, we see it from the more common perspective of just what it is like to be a fan.

It is at this point that I really need to extend my gratitude to Alice Oseman. You see, I was that fan. There is a line in a movie called Almost Famous and a girl who happens to be known as a “band aid” someone who is in the music set but not a musician say something along the lines of “to love a silly little piece of music so much” – I have been there. My band weren’t seen as particularly cool and were often mocked for what others perceived as fake rock but by god – nearly 15 years on since that band broke up I can still remember those feelings. What Oseman didn’t do – even though she could easily have taken this route – is that she didn’t patronise the fan. Yes, it must be overwhelming and at times frightening for the famous person who cannot see what it is that makes them so special but for a fan it is the feeling of belonging. Belonging to a culture, a group of fans or just even belonging to the band. I thank Alice Oseman for not belittling feelings that I once had – and to some extent still have.

Besides all of this, there are layers of plot that are explored sensitively but have a verisimilitude such as LGBT issues, transgenderism, religion, parental relations.

Overall, I Was Born for This is a book about growing up. It is a coming of age story and those are my favourite kind. Couple this with the music element and I was one happy bunny.

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman is available now.

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Youssef

but her books just keep getting better and better

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2018

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I've been following Alice's career (and Tumblr!) since late 2015 and I've found during that time that, not only is she a lovely human being, but her books just keep getting better and better! I Was Born For This has that signature Oseman writing style that manages to capture an authentic teenage voice in a refreshingly unique way. Alice's style grows with her books, and with us, and I can hear her characters' voices as clearly as if they were my own friends talking to me at college.

When I first heard that IWBFT (forever titled 'book 3' in my heart) was tackling 'band fandom', I was excited because of how under-explored that theme is. Usually the furthest we get is a mention of 'fangirling', but having 'fandom' as a whole explored in depth is rarely done, and I knew that if anybody could do it and do it well, it was Alice- I wasn't disappointed! I especially appreciated the relation between fandom and (heavily implied) mental health issues; we hyperfixate on things like bands, books, tv shows because they let us escape from our negative thoughts and feelings, and Angel's relationship with The Ark's fandom really shows that.

The book takes place over a week, and it definitely reads as fast paced- no spoilers but during the ending I literally couldn't stop reading because I was that anxious about what was happening. My favourite aspect of IWBFT, my favourite aspect of all of Alice's books, was the depth of her characters who I unsurprisingly love with all my heart. The characters are lovable, and funny, and above all, humanly flawed. Alice has a way of writing personal relationships that make them so real, and I can't help but have emotionally charged reactions to them.

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. There's an unspoken connection between Angel and Jimmy, and a certain calmness to them together that I can only really describe as comforting. (view spoiler) Then the boys. The love they all have for each other is so pure and whole, and the gentleness in the way they interact - soft touches, gentle words - just makes me feel so warm inside. Reminds me of my own best friend and I am definitely here for this deconstruction of toxic masculinity.

I could say a lot more and who knows, I might actually right an essay length commentary closer to the release date, but for now I'll leave it at this; I Was Born For This has everything we've all grown to love about Alice Oseman's work -naturally diverse, uniquely quirky, authentic relationships - but it's also completely its own work. Refreshing and wonderful and I already want to read it again, so if you haven't already added it to your list you should definitely keep an eye out when it's released on May 3rd.

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Isaac F

wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2018

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I absolutely devoured this book- it's rare nowadays that I can sit and read a book in one sitting, usually I get too distracted, but I read this in one. The characters are engaging, I cared about them, and it kept me interested. While it is undoubtedly a Young Adult novel, and this comes across in the way the characters speak and express their emotions, many deep and important themes are brought up. Most of all, the thing I loved the most about this book was that one of the two protagonists is trans, and although the author is not, he was written sensitively and with great realism. His story wasn't exclusively about his being trans, unlike many trans characters in literature, and he was allowed to be a well rounded and interesting character aside from his transness, although it isn't shied away from. I loved this book.

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capricioushelen

This was a wonderful, emotive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2018

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This was a wonderful, emotive, difficult, beautifully written book. Alice Oseman's portrayal of boyband fandoms was respectful, well-thought out, and painfully well-balanced. As someone who has experienced that kind of fandom from the inside, the book was often hard to read as it offered an alternate view of these fan spaces - but that didn't mean it wasn't incredible. I would recommend this, but for boyband fans, prepare to have your heart broken. Go into this well-guarded, or you might end up staring into space for hours afterwards, questioning your entire existence - just like I did.

Marit

It was so so good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2018

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Oh my gosh, I read this in one go, it was so so good. It also reminded me a lot of my fandom days, when I was much more into fandoms.

I could just relate to so many things in this book, and what a incredibly well written portrait of fandoms and the people involved in them. I seldom see such a positive description of teenagers just really really liking something and where the author is not being disparagingly about it.

And the internet friendships! Again, this was also looked at in such a positive light, which was just the best! I met one of my best friends over the internet and this books just speaks to me so so much.

All in all, just another incredible book by Alice Oseman, probably her best one to date.

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