Down with This Ship
Katie Kingman
Kole Miller does one thing really well: write fanfiction for the show The Space Game. Everything else is a struggle: like managing her anxiety, frequent crushes, and plans after high school. But when her blog, Spacer, wins a major fanfiction contest, her traffic soars. With massive readership comes criticism Kole isn’t prepared for, including getting stuck in the heated ship wars surrounding the show. And then an invitation to speak at The Space Game’s official convention arrives in her inbox. When the most competitive kids in her Creative Writing class discover Kole’s writing Spacer, her blog is taken hostage and she risks them hitting ctrl+A+del on Spacer. To win it back, Kole must face both her inner demons and the ones at Crystal Lake High before they make the drama not just about The Space Game, but about Kole herself. Including snippets from Kole’s fanfic, emails, and text messages, Down With This Ship is sure to bring out the inner fangirl in anyone.
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0Down With This Ship combined elements of all my favorite tropes — enemies to lovers, fan culture, and unapologetic geekiness! It was a light, fun read that I enjoyed on a long flight.
The characters themselves were a little underdeveloped; it felt like Kole’s defining characteristic was fangirl. And while, lol #mood, it got a bit repetitive to read. The high school antagonists were unrealistic in how far they’d go and the response of the school (if I did half of the stuff the kids got away with, I would’ve been suspended or expelled quicker than you can say “but I-“).
However, all this being said, it was a sweet book to read and find out what happens. I love, love, love the addition of fanfic excerpts and how much fan culture is woven into the book. Reading it felt like a love letter to the geek community!
0I will definitely not be going Down With This Ship, thank you very much. The premise is fine, but everything after that fails. The characters are either obnoxious caricatures or entirely flat, the plot doesn’t really hold together, and the writing style is disjointed and trying too hard to be clever or fun or cool. Just a total disappointment.
I received an advance digital copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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