This book was remarkable. I said it. Favourite book so far
this year. It managed to capture the essence of Felicia day in writing form,
the sort of book you’d read in her voice. It talked about her exploits as a
home-schooled kid in the south and her tussle with being a child prodigy
alongside her professional and virtual life in an honest tone without sounding
too forced or melodramatic. Her writing is fun to consume and personally
responsible for my late nights spent desperate to get to the end of the chapter
if it kills me.
I managed to empathise with her narration, getting genuinely
nervous about her ill fortune and impressed/excited with her victories to the
point where I subjected my family and friends into conversations about a book
they haven’t even read because I needed to vent the roller-coaster of emotions
she sent the reader through. Her writing manages to allow her audience to view
the world through the lens she viewed it, in a way that even her best videos
couldn't. Even her anxiety comes through in her writing as she references her
various spirit animals (the majority of which being prey.)
I found the chapter about her experiences with comic con and
Gamergate to be particularly insightful and the perfect proof that her life is
a pendulum of extremes swaying from an army a swooning fans getting her name
tattooed over their body to video game addiction and her details being released
into the abyss for anyone to find. In conclusion this book is a wild ride,
clear your evenings and grab a bookmark ASAP.
Side note: if Felicia sees this then please help a fella out
and share it with your fan base. it would mean a lot to me, as a creator who
started from scratch in the early 2000s you know how hard it is to get a fan
base without selling your soul to Satan.
No comments:
Post a Comment