“Never give up on your dreams, and never let anyone tell you that what you love is inconsequential or useless or a waste of time. Because if you love it? If that OTP or children's card game or abridged series or YA book or animated series makes you happy?
That is never a waste of time. Because in the end, we're all just a bunch of weirdos standing in front of other weirdos, asking for their username.”
DNF at 42%

I am so disappointed with this book! I was hoping for this cute, nerdy retelling of Cinderella, with lots of awkwardness, lots of cutesy moments, and funny stuff, but that was not what I got at all. Honestly, if it wasn't a Buddy read, I wouldn't even have made it into 40%. Ella is downright annoying and thinks herself better than everyone else because she doesn't like typical teen stuff, is the kind of radical fan I dislike a lot, who wants everything down to the letter like the source material and slams everything and everyone if it's not how she wanted it to be and is so judgy it's irritating. Darrow is a bit more likable, but he seems to hate acting and being famous and seems to also hate his fans, because he's always complaining of having to do stuff and the show that actually advanced his career, and having to deal with fans. So, I spent the whole time I was reading his POV "why don't you just quit if you dislike it so much?". And since they are the protagonists, and we follow their POV ALL the time, I just couldn't keep reading. I had absolutely no desire to pick up the book and get into their heads again. So, I just DNF-ed it, and won't be continuing with the series as well. I may give the author another shot in the future, just not right now.