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Cover of The Fandom by Anna  Day

The Fandom

Anna Day

A fandom-obsessed teen is pulled into her favorite dystopian saga and must help the story play out to get home.

First published 2018 · The Fandom

Review Score: 74%

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The Story

Violet and her friends are devoted fans of a book-and-film franchise and head to a comic convention in cosplay to meet the actors behind it. During the event, a freak accident sends them into the fictional world they know so well, where the story is suddenly no longer just something they can quote or predict.

Inside that world, their arrival changes the opening events and puts Violet in the place of the story’s heroine. To survive and get back home, the group has to follow the narrative’s path and navigate a harsh society split between powerful, engineered elites and oppressed outsiders, while the consequences of their choices keep rewriting the plot.

As Violet compares what is happening to the version she knows, she has to decide whether to stay on the script or risk changing it further. The story builds around survival, loyalties, and the tension between preserving canon and choosing a different ending for herself and her friends.