Emergency Contact

It's the middle of Tech Week, so I don't really have time to read, but I managed to finish Emergency Contact by M. H. K. Choi anyway, because it's extremely overdue.

This book is literally just Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl. No joke. Rainbow Rowell actually blurbed it ("blurbed" is totally a word, right?), and I can see why she liked it- it's basically just her own book. The main character, Penny, is a bit of a sort of awkward, introverted nerd, but still decently pretty. She's heading off into her freshman year of college. Her roommate and her roommate's bestfriend are both pretty and extroverted and fond of pushing Penny into social situations. Penny meets a guy. They text a lot. And also, she has a broken relationship with her mother and is writing a big thing because she is at college to be a writer. So yeah, it's just pretty much Fangirl.

I was a little bit disappointed about the heterosexualness, because while Fangirl had a wonderfully nerdy gay subplot, Emergency Contact has no representation that I managed to catch. Literally nothing. Oh well!

Enjoy this quote from the beginning of the acknowledgements:
"Woah. I can't believe I get to write acknowledgements. It's wild. Meow." (392)

So, yeah. This book is pretty much just fluff. Very cute, sort of stereotypical, but very well done fluff, but still. Fluff. It's funny though, and sort of adorable and the cover is very aesthetically pleasing. Not going on my "books to buy" list, but I dont regret reading it.