Love it! when comicon meets thriller. a nice representation of diversity and LgBtq challenges through the world. a beautiful story of friendship, thrilling novel.

There's a good idea behind this novel, which seems to me to be aimed at the YA market. I wanted to like it, but some of the prose is clunky - not helped by the (perhaps inevitable) use of transcribed text/whatsapp messages. It moves at a pace, narratively, which is OK, but it sometimes runs away with itself, and there is, above all else, a real lack of polish about the writing, almost as if it's a first draft. It's a shame, because there's such a lot of potential here. The characters could be absolutely compelling, as is the plot, and I'm sure it will have its appeal.

Sadly I was unable to finish this book. Not because it wasn't well written, because it was. I found the characters didn't appeal to me and it all seemed a little bit too 'woke' for my taste. I'm sure that someone far younger than me would really enjoy it.

Very chaotic.Four friends run around the country trying to solve the murder of their favourite celebrity in panic by luke jennings.I think this book was full of suspense and the ending shocked me.

Four "misfits" have their own very private chat group about their favourite programme where an alien comes to earth and helps a misfit girl realise she has her own superpower. The Panic in the title is a portmanteau of the two main characters in the programme's names who the fans love to ship and also the adventure that ensues later for the gang of four. The group's dearest wish is to attend the Con in San Francisco for the programme and to meet up, especially when the apparent "personal make up artist" of Alice , the Alien actor, contacts them offering to comp their convention tickets and hotel if they can pay for the trip. One of the group manages to get the money and they head off from their miserable real lives to the U.S. However, when they are invited to meet Alice privately they witness a crime and try to spirit Alice away and go on the run with her traversing the U.S. Through their adventure they also discover their own resourcefulness, strength and "super powers."

This rolled along really well. I had to totally and utterly suspend my disbelief at how the group reacted to witnessing a crime but went along with it. I really enjoyed the on the run caper and how the group discover their hidden depths and that they aren't so useless as they have always felt. The tension was kept up nicely. The weak point was the conclusion. I felt all the story strands didn't quite coalesce. It seemed a bit like the writer thought he needed to wrap things up and it all was just a bit of a let down for me after the epic chase around the country. Still well worth reading.