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Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell

Start date: October 1, 2017

Finish date: October 31, 2017

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Apr 23, 2015 Ashley Reid rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, romance, female-lead, swooning, realistic-fiction

Okay, I mostly loved it, and I especially loved the realistic characters. In most romance books either the men or women are completely perfect and without flaws, but in Fangirl the main character was a kinda nerdy and socially awkward girl, and her love interest was an actual man who made mistakes and was a little insecure about his feelings, it made them so much more real.

And speaking of Levi, Where can I find one of him?

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Jan 16, 2016 Brex (Bookosaurus_Rex) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

3 generous stars.

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As others have said, this is a very character driven book. I related to many parts of the story, as well as to Cath in many ways, which normally endears me to books, but in this case, there were some things that I didn't want to relive:

- A mother who straight up ditched the fam
- Mental instability in a family member + alcoholism
- Broken family

Things I didn’t mind relating to:

- Fierce sibling love
- Cath’s introversion and insecurity
- Blunt exchanges between people who “g ...more

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Jan 04, 2014 Jade Diamond rated it liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed Fangirl. Though the way I feel about it is almost exactly how I feel about Eleanor & Park. They are both cute books with complex, well-developed characters, and yet I feel like something is missing that just holds both books back from being truly memorable.

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Dec 26, 2013 Cecily Black rated it liked it

I am on the fence with this one...

I really enjoy R.R.'s style of writing and even the characters that she gives life to. Levi was probably my favorite character in this book.
What I mostly didn't like was the fanfiction part. Not that I don't like fanfiction but that the characters story didn't interest me; all the magic and what not. I felt like that stuff took a good percentage of the book. I also didn't like that she felt that she couldn't write anything of her own.
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