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A review by saralanca95
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
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....
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....