AUTHOR: Rainbow Rowell
FIRST PUBLISHED: 10th September 2013
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RATING: 5/5
AGES: 13+
READ IF YOU LIKED:
- Eleanor and Park
- The Fault in our Stars
- Looking for Alaska
- Divergent (for the Fourtris aspect)
Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently the did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more - se want's to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life.
Without Wren Cath is completely on her own and totally outside her comfort zone. She's got a surly room-mate 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.
Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn about love than she ever thought possible . . .
--iTunes description
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Okay - first I'd like to apologise for my lack of updates lately. I didn't want to post for no reason, but I wanted to post yet I had no reason.
This book took me about two weeks to finish because I was trying to soak in every single aspect of it! Every character, every place. Every scene and every conversation and every thought was completely realistic - which is a theme that I've noticed among Rowell's novels.
Fangirl had all the characteristics of a soap-opera, but it was less soap-opera-ish. There was always something going on in Cath's plain lifestyle that isn't too unbelievable, creating a deep connection between myself and the her. Although sometimes it's a little bit cliche, I didn't really care, because really, who actually minds a tiny bit of cliche? From the beginning Fangirl was the type of book that pulled you in. Immediately you fell in love with the characters, and only wanted the best for them. Every character is amazing, there's not one part of them that you feel like you don't really know. This book has a place in my heart now, I didn't want it to end. Cath's life, writing, english, fan fiction, is very similar to mine, and it's something that I don't find commonly in books.
In everyone's life, certain chapters will always come to an end, just like Cath and Wren's first year at college. And like always, not everyone's chapter ended perfectly, which is refreshing to see in a modern-day book, instead of every character living happily ever after.
I hope that you do give this amazing book a chance - it most definitely deserves it!
Happy reading,
The Bookworm! :)
