FANGIRL By Rainbow Rowell

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Published by St. Martin's Griffin on 9/10/13
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.
Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Short and Sweet Review

Cath is a Simon Snow fan, her life revolves around the book and she even writes her own fanfiction. Cath and her sister Wren used Simon Snow to cope with their mother leaving them. Wren has moved on from the fandom but Cath hasn’t. Now that they’re going to college Wren has told Cath that she doesn’t want to be roommates and now Cath feels like she’s all alone.

Fangirl is an okay book. After reading it I realized there really wasn’t a plot. Its 400 pages of us following Cath trying to navigate college and her love for Simon Snow. Cath is obsessed with him and I’m sure if he wasn’t a fictional character he’d need a restraining order. Cath is in college now she doesn’t like change so she’s struggling, her sister Wren wants to venture out but Cath still acts like she needs her hand held. Cath has a roommate Reagan who also has a friend named Levi and because Levi and Reagan are friends Levi is over a lot. Cath and Levi start a relationship it’s alright. Honestly everything about this book is just meh. If things don’t go Cath’s way she freaks out, has a meltdown, and then shuts down. Its very off-putting. Basically all we see is Cath living her life in college and there’s not much more to it. On the plus side we get to see excerpts from the Simon snow series.