This is without a doubt the best contemporary book I have read!!!

Through out the book, the thing that made me really love the story and feel really connected was how grounded and how much of a fangirl Cath is.

She is not the typical girl who is super brave, wild, fearless and just takes a chance and life runs perfectly. She is real. She has anxiety, she actually stops herself form doing a lot of things because of it and she ends up missing a lot in life. I like that because it gives you an outside perspective of what it is like to live with anxiety and, at least for me, it made me realize that a lot of the times we just make the situation much worse than it actually is in our heads, and if we just took a change everything would be fine. Seeing the world trough Cath's eyes made me realize how much alike we are and actually made want to be a little bit more brave. And the best part is that she didn't overcome this fears over night and out of the sudden she's superwoman; it takes her time and a lot of encouragement from her friends.

The second thing that I love about Cath is her passion for fanfiction. I think all of us here at GR will identify with her at that level. In some way or another we're all fans of some story or world or characters. She as such passion about and she is actually able to share that with people that might not exactly understand her (which is something we've all been through). It just brought me back to so many memories that I have of Harry Potter or the Shadowhunters, and I could actually see myself in some of the situations. Basically, Cath is the character that I see the most of myself in.

This are all things that I noticed and loved while reading the book, but by the time I was reading the last 2 or 3 chapters I realized what I really loved about this story. It wasn't filled with clichés. There was no insta-love, there was no oh-i'm-gonna-lose-my-virginity-and-it's-gonna-be-like-a-fairytale stuff, there was no sudden tragedy or death to make the ending more touching, there was no epic love story (just a realistic one, thank god).... On and all it was the best plot line in a contemporary book ever, for me of course, also, bear in mind that I haven't read that much contemporary books yet ;)

I just can't find any flaws.... I wish this was like a 10 books series or something... I just wanna keep reading about these characters....

THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS THAT I LOVED ABOUT THIS BOOK !!¡¡
Levi was perfection ❤️❤️❤️

Very fun read! Many fangirls can relate to the obsessive need the character felt... A very cute coming of age story that teenage fangirls must read and older ones would giggle over!

ehhhh.
would have liked it better if i read it like 5 yrs back though. the protagonist reminded me of a friend of mine, hence the 3 star.

I want to read it again. I also should have read this last summer, before going into freshman year myself. No matter.
I really really liked this book. I loved the characters and the progression of the relationships and the overall plot. I do have minor qualms that deal with my incessant need to have everything resolved as a reader. Like I wanted to know how Cath's story ended, how GTL's story ended, how Cath's fic lit class story developed, etc. However, I still enjoyed the book and wasn't disappointed with the book-- I just wish there were 100 more pages for elaboration. :)
ALSO MAJOR PROPS FOR THE LACK OF "people in relationship fight over something and then don't speak for 100 pages but separately suffer in agony and then make up at the book's close and everything is beautiful" TROPE BECAUSE I HATE THAT. Cath and her ~love interest~ (which was not obvious to me at all at first, which might make me oblivious but I can normally pick these things out) were not at all part of this cliché and I really appreciated their relationship. Even their spats (which do happen and should be included in a book-- I'm not saying that all fights in relationships should be excluded, it's just the predictability that makes me roll my eyes as the reader) were valid and central to their development as characters, or at least about their personalities. Boom.

LOVED THIS. I might start fangirling over FANGIRL and its characters/world. Rainbow Rowell is such an amazing author, and she is so skilled at sucking me into the worlds she creates. I read this 400-pager in less than a day because I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended to all who consider themselves fangirls, shy, half of a twin, or just a lover of good literature.

I enjoyed the romantic lead a great deal, and truly did enjoy most of the book. However, I did not care for all the Simon Snow blurbs nor Cath's unrelenting naivety.

From the author the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park

A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.

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?

This book was... not what I expected. I mean this in the most wonderful way. I've never read any other books by Rainbow Rowell, but I've heard lovely things. So, when giving the opportunity to read Fangirl I jumped at the chance. But, I didn't expect for it to be anything more than a light, funny, read with the ability to be quite charming, but, what I got was so much more.

Fangirl is one of those books that pulls you in and doesn't let go. You really love all the characters, and even the most secondary characters are truly well developed. You become Cath as she explores life outside her sister's shadow and life as a freshman in college. She has to make her way through life without Wren and you cheer her on as she realizes that she can do it. I, personally, loved reading about her roommate as well, and would love to see a sequel involving her. I feel like Rainbow Rowell really wrote a beautiful coming of age story in which Cath faces ups and downs but ultimately finds her way.