*SPOILER ALERT*
There are multiple themes in the book Extras, by Scott Westerfield. One of those themes are that you need to be careful of what you wish for. The book is set in Japan, in the future. People are genetically beautiful, and they can change their bodies however they want. There are city "feed's" and that's pretty much a blog that the whole world uses. It's not like Facebook, where some people use it. Everyone uses it.
The main character, Aya, wants to be famous on the city feeds. She wishes and does anything to become a higher "face-rank." She remembers that she saw a group of strange girls "mag-lev" riding. A mag-lev is a train, and it goes super fast. She ends up following them, and joining their group under cover. While she is with the girls, she sees these inhuman things, but ignores them. She then rats the girls out on the feeds, and becomes the 12th famous person in the world.
"Great, the last thing I need is to arrive at the mansion with 100 hover-cams in tow." When she's famous, she ends up being swarmed with paparazzi and by hover-cams, which are video cameras that fly. She also gets attacked by the inhuman beings, and her life becomes in jeopardy. "Suddenly, there were too many people that knew her name, instead of not enough."
I think this is showing that you have to be careful of what you wish for, because she was begging for people, and now she's begging them to leave her alone. Sometimes, what you want can bite you back.
P.S. I'm hungry...
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