Friday Excerpts: Eliza and Her Monsters Francesca Zappia

Today I'll be sharing some book excerpts with these bookish features:

➢ Book Beginnings is a weekly feature (hosted by Rose City Reader) where you post the first sentence of the book you're currently reading. 

➢ The Friday 56 is a weekly feature (hosted by Freda's Voice) where you get a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on ereader) then post a interesting sentence from that page with no spoilers. 

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Blurb:

Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster. 

In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. 

Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. 

But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.

Beginning:

CHAPTER 1 -

The origin post is open on my computer when I shuffle over to it in the morning.  Overnight, another three hundred comments have cropped up.  I don't know what they say anymore— I haven't checked in months.  I know some are from fans.  A lot are from trolls.  I don't look at the post for the comments.  I look because it is my daily reminder that all of this— all of my life— is a real thing.

My beginning is time-stamped in history.  

Friday 56 (page 56):

If I could live there instead of on Earth, I would do it in a heartbeat.  I would build an airship and fly over the monster-filled oceans, and I'd visit all the places I've only ever seen in my head.

My Thoughts:

I'm sixty or so pages into this book and I like it so far.  I like the focus on fandom and being online and I think these excerpts really reflect that part of the book.

Have you read Eliza and Her Monsters? 

What are your thoughts on the quotes from it?