She approaches her subject with a wry critical distance — which is actually, she argues, an underappreciated but common fan characteristic.

... wistful, winning, and unexpectedly funny.

... a smart, empathetic work of nonfiction that examines young women and the ways they have innovated digital spaces.

... engaging and persuasive.

That Tiffany is a One Direction fan and reflects on her fandom throughout validates her arguments. She is, like an experienced anthropologist, a participant observer in this retelling of how fangirls shaped Internet culture.

... on the one hand, elegantly written, evidence-based, and rational, and on the other, off-kilter, animated by a profound and consuming, almost manic, loneliness. Tiffany’s fandom is not quite at the center of the book—which aims, by using One Direction fans as a case study, to show how internet fangirls have been misunderstood as a cultural force—but it’s enough of a presence to be persuasive.

Doling out droll insights alongside expertly dissected tweets, Atlantic staff writer Tiffany takes readers down the rabbit hole of the internet, One Direction, and rabid fandom in this immensely entertaining debut.

Entertaining.