Female Fantasy

by Iman Hariri-Kia

Joonie has two great loves. Writing fanfic about her favorite fantasy romance series and swooning over its hero, Ryke, a broody, impossibly perfect merman. No real-life boyfriend has ever come close. Why settle for ordinary when your fictional crush is…well, an impossibly hot, impossibly wonderful Ryke?

But then Joonie discovers a secret: Ryke was inspired by a real man. And she's determined to find him. Cue a whirlwind road trip, complete with her brother's aggravatingly hot best friend at the wheel, clumsy kidnappers, psychics, and her fiercely loyal fanfic crew. He doesn't believe in love. She refuses to believe in anything else. And neither is ready for the sparks that start flying.

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About the author

Iman Hariri-Kia is a writer born and based in New York City. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and an award-winning journalist, she covers sex, relationships, identity, and adolescence. Her work has appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and more. She is the bestselling author of A Hundred Other Girls and The Most Famous Girl in the World. Her latest novel, Female Fantasy, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and more.

Reviews

[Alyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really loved this set up at the start, but then the altering chapters with the fictional fantasy series the main girl is obsessed with began to get too much for me. I felt like it dragged out the story at times, and would have preferred a 'Fangirl' approach where we just got glimpses of key scenes scattered throughout the story.
Also, I was really thrown by the random kidnapping - it felt tonally jarring with the rest of the story.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a lot of fun. Is it plausible? No. But it jumps between a made up romantasy and a romance happening in real time and it does that well. If you don’t take it too seriously, it’s very entertaining