📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Fangirl
AUTHOR: Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: September 10, 2013
The Review 📚 Fangirl
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had heard so many cute things about this book, it came highly recommended.
💜 What I liked:
- I immediately dived into the story of Cath and felt for her. While she does totally close herself off from the world, people are genuinely not the best of friends to her. They use her and take her for granted. It’s hard to read at times, but very relatable.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The story is interspersed with snippets from various Simon Snow material. And while it vaguely connects to the story, I didn’t enjoy that part as much.
🚦 My face at the end: 🥰
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. College Setting
- 2. Fan Fiction
- 3. An Introvert
- 4. Interpersonal Issues
- 5. The Rainbow Rowell Metaverse
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Cath starts college along with her twin, Wren. But she is more alone than she imagined… except for her fan fiction.
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📘 Summary 📚 Fangirl
A coming-of-age tale of fanfiction, family, and first love.
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, 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 fanfiction, 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 fanfiction 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? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?