Review: Geekerella by Ashley Poston

This is a book for all the fangirls and fanboys out there. A retelling of the classic tale of Cinderella set in the world of fandoms and conventions. 



We follow Elle as she slaves away for her evil stepmother and two stepsisters while she waits impatiently for the reboot of her favorite sci-fi series as a film. She dreams about escaping her lonely life with her step-family and when a convention offers plane tickets to LA as a prize for a costume contest she decides to enter in the hopes of winning an escape from her life. 

We also follow Darien, the actor playing the main character of the new reboot film. He is himself a fanboy and considers the job as an amazing opportunity. But the world around him only sees him as a vapid teen actor focused on looking good and getting money. 

Both are headed for the convention, Elle to join the competition, Darien to judge it, and when they meet they realize a few things about themselves and each other. 

This book was okay. I am a sucker for the sort of ploy used in this book, i.e. the sort of anonymous texting/writing between two people who don’t know who the other one really is. I found the story cute and fun, with a few more serious moments, but nothing groundbreaking. 

As for the writing itself it was fine, but the editing left something to be desired. There were so many basic errors that it seemed the editing was cursory at best. Syntax errors and extra words abound and I hate that kind of thing. It is just really jarring and pulled me out of the story every time it happened. Which was more often than it should have been!


In the end this book certainly had some flaws. The editing was too rough, some things seemed a bit rushed, but in the end I did have fun while reading it. So I gave it 3 stars out of 5. 

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