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A review by syl_val15
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
5 out of 5 magical and nerdy stars!
2nd time read
How is it possible that the 19 year old me and the 24 is still very much in love with Levi? I guess some things never change.
This book remains one of my favorite comfort reads of all time!
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Fangirl
By Rainbow Rowell
This is the second book that I've read of Rainbow Rowell, and I loved this book more than 'Eleanor & Park', I mean I have nothing against 'Eleanor and Park', but this book spoke to me completely.
In this book, we follow Cath (the main character) and her twin sister Wren, who are off to college. Cath feels betrayed by her sister because, for the first time in 18 years, her sister Wren does not want to live with her sister anymore. She wants to explore, have adventures and meet new people while she's in college. Cath feels very isolated, deals with insecurities among other stuff and the only thing that makes her happy is writing fan-fictions about Simon Snow, posting regularly about them on fanfic websites with her Simon stories. Cath's personality was very accurate to the crowd she was depicted as, and relatable.
About Cath and her roommate Reagan's friendship, despite being the complete opposite of each other they became good friends, in a very unique sense, and I really liked that Reagan took the initiative to get to know Cath. These days, people don’t do that anymore, they always stick with the people they know. So, I’m glad they end up together in the dorm and that they eventually became friends. It’s funny how different they are from each other, but still fit quite well together. I've always liked ‘weird friendship combos’.
About Wren, I wasn’t so sure what to think of her in the beginning. I just couldn’t understand her. She basically left her twin sister to deal with everything alone. But, I like how the story turned out and near the ending I got to liking her. She’s amazing and it's always incredible that you have a sister to rely on (I still prefer Cath, though).
Levi reminded me alot of Cricket from Stephanie Perkins's “Lola and the boy next door”, with his appearance, personality (although Levi is more extroverted than Cricket) caring for their love interests and so on. I think every girl deserves to have a Levi in her life. I loved Levi, because he was adorable, caring, happy-go-lucky, kind and a perfect human being. And what made him sweeter than he already was he asked Cath to read her fan-fictions to him. Why guys in books are so much better than guys in real life?
I can’t believe why I haven’t read this book any sooner, but I’m glad I did and it was pure perfection.
If there were more than five stars I would’ve given to this book. I think this book became one of my favorite books of all time. Our protagonist Cath had so much to deal with. Her mom (who out of the blue wanted to contanct with her daughters after leaving them on 11th of september 10 years ago, I mean what kind of a mother leaves her family behind to 'figure herself out'?), Nick (didn’t like him either, he kind of used Cath for his benefit), her teacher, her dad (who has psychological problems), I don’t know how she dealt with all of that, but she did it somehow. She has a lot of insecurities, but she’s so strong at the same time.This book was very realistic, it dealt with so many issues.
And it was kind of cool to read another story in a story, there were times that the fanfiction of a book series’s main character Simon Snow (which is a Harry Potter kind of story with twists on its own) which Cath was writing, sounded boring to my ears however eventually it grew on me throughout as I was reading those parts with wide eyed.
I lived every moment with this book, it’s like I was already in the book and it was happening in real life. I agreed with everything Cath did, as she shared my line of thinking. I probably would've done the same. I felt very connected to that her. Although I did wish to know more about what happened between Cath and her mother, did she really forgive her? Did they started talking to each other? That was the only minor thing that I wanted to know more about.
5/5 Stars.
2nd time read
How is it possible that the 19 year old me and the 24 is still very much in love with Levi? I guess some things never change.
This book remains one of my favorite comfort reads of all time!
**********************************************************
Fangirl
By Rainbow Rowell
This is the second book that I've read of Rainbow Rowell, and I loved this book more than 'Eleanor & Park', I mean I have nothing against 'Eleanor and Park', but this book spoke to me completely.
In this book, we follow Cath (the main character) and her twin sister Wren, who are off to college. Cath feels betrayed by her sister because, for the first time in 18 years, her sister Wren does not want to live with her sister anymore. She wants to explore, have adventures and meet new people while she's in college. Cath feels very isolated, deals with insecurities among other stuff and the only thing that makes her happy is writing fan-fictions about Simon Snow, posting regularly about them on fanfic websites with her Simon stories. Cath's personality was very accurate to the crowd she was depicted as, and relatable.
About Cath and her roommate Reagan's friendship, despite being the complete opposite of each other they became good friends, in a very unique sense, and I really liked that Reagan took the initiative to get to know Cath. These days, people don’t do that anymore, they always stick with the people they know. So, I’m glad they end up together in the dorm and that they eventually became friends. It’s funny how different they are from each other, but still fit quite well together. I've always liked ‘weird friendship combos’.
About Wren, I wasn’t so sure what to think of her in the beginning. I just couldn’t understand her. She basically left her twin sister to deal with everything alone. But, I like how the story turned out and near the ending I got to liking her. She’s amazing and it's always incredible that you have a sister to rely on (I still prefer Cath, though).
Levi reminded me alot of Cricket from Stephanie Perkins's “Lola and the boy next door”, with his appearance, personality (although Levi is more extroverted than Cricket) caring for their love interests and so on. I think every girl deserves to have a Levi in her life. I loved Levi, because he was adorable, caring, happy-go-lucky, kind and a perfect human being. And what made him sweeter than he already was he asked Cath to read her fan-fictions to him. Why guys in books are so much better than guys in real life?
I can’t believe why I haven’t read this book any sooner, but I’m glad I did and it was pure perfection.
If there were more than five stars I would’ve given to this book. I think this book became one of my favorite books of all time. Our protagonist Cath had so much to deal with. Her mom (who out of the blue wanted to contanct with her daughters after leaving them on 11th of september 10 years ago, I mean what kind of a mother leaves her family behind to 'figure herself out'?), Nick (didn’t like him either, he kind of used Cath for his benefit), her teacher, her dad (who has psychological problems), I don’t know how she dealt with all of that, but she did it somehow. She has a lot of insecurities, but she’s so strong at the same time.This book was very realistic, it dealt with so many issues.
And it was kind of cool to read another story in a story, there were times that the fanfiction of a book series’s main character Simon Snow (which is a Harry Potter kind of story with twists on its own) which Cath was writing, sounded boring to my ears however eventually it grew on me throughout as I was reading those parts with wide eyed.
I lived every moment with this book, it’s like I was already in the book and it was happening in real life. I agreed with everything Cath did, as she shared my line of thinking. I probably would've done the same. I felt very connected to that her. Although I did wish to know more about what happened between Cath and her mother, did she really forgive her? Did they started talking to each other? That was the only minor thing that I wanted to know more about.
5/5 Stars.