Fangirl in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

May 22, 2014 Lacey Louwagie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-fiction, youngadult, romance, 100-book-challenge-2014

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. So, now I know why Rainbow Rowell is such a big deal.

This book wasn't perfect, but it still deserved five stars, because it accomplished something very few books do for me, with my decades-long "TBR" pile:

I did not want it to end. I felt a sense of sadness rather than accomplishment as I progressed through the discs in my car.

Why did I not want it to end? Well, there's that saying that we read to feel less alone, and this was one of those books I could see so much of myself in it was scary. Row ...more

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Dec 10, 2013 eb rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, young-adult, realistic

This is one of very few books that I finished and immediately turned over and began again. I found Cath's difficult transition to college and her estrangement from her sister painfully accurate, as is her difficulty connecting with people or trusting them. I learned a lot about fan culture and fan fiction, too, and I was swept up in the parallel narrative for Simon Snow as I read to find out what would happen next for Cath. Levi, too, became one of my favorite male characters / love interests in ...more

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Mar 22, 2016 Noam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: juvenalia, anglo-america, audiolibros

Devoured this book like oreo ice cream. Yum yum yum.

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Jun 06, 2013 Megan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, young-adult, romance, contemporary

Fangirl is one of the more absolutely true to life books I've read. The characters felt like actual people - flaws and all. Well, Levi wasn't so much. But. It was an interesting and even kind look at fandom. It seems to me that every time fandom comes up in media it's sneered at. "Oh these silly people with their lists and liking things!" (I'm glaring at you, Aaron Sorkin.) I mean, I've never been deep into fandom, but I still hate to see that.

I found Cath to be a difficult character to like, th ...more

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Dec 25, 2013 Kate McCartney rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, teen-fiction, friendship, 2016

I started this as an audiobook and I was loving it, loving it too much, I didn't have enough places to drive so after searching my second library, I had already left the one I work at for the week, I got the book this morning and had to finish it!

I want to live in Rainbow's books, I want to be her characters, I want to fall in love for the first time all over again like they do!

I love how real and frustrating and beautiful her characters are. I like that they are relatable how they make me a 38 ...more

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