Fangirl Review

Title: Fangirl

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Publisher: Macmillan

Synopsis: 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 sister, 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 fan fiction, 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 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.

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? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

REVIEW

This is not my type of book, seriously, but it had some magic that made me love it.

I love the way Rainbow writes. You never get tired, you just want to finish that sentence, and then the next and the next and the next.

It is magic how Cath can stuck you in her world, how she can make us appreciate a whole fangirl thing.

In some situations I find myself finding similar aspects between Cath and me, like how hard is to live in this world full of crap people that doesn't let you be yourself. That is the way she can find the true herself: writing about Simon Snow. Simon never judged her and never would, she lived for Simon and in some way Simon lived for her. It's incredible how Rainbow can show us the best and the worst of the two worlds.

On the other hand we can see how hard is to have a twin and a non easy family. During the book, we keep finding out the different reasons why Cath writes fanfiction. This is not explicit, Rainbow let this whole thing for us to find out.

Do a favor to yourself. Read this book.