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A review by mariannacecilio
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
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I LOVED Fangirl. It is one of the first contemporary books that I've read. I've been trying to branch out in the genres that I read and I heard a lot of great things about Rainbow Rowell and Fangirl, so I decided to give it a try, and it was definitely worth it. I connected so much with Cath and her experience in college, her anxiety, her trouble making friends and connecting with people, and the fact that she's always off in her own world of books and fanfiction. I think Fangirl is a story that many people will be able to connect to. Cath is put into a new situation when she goes away to college and has to learn to adapt to this new life, while at the same time learning to be separate from her twin sister who wants space for the first time in their lives. I had previously never really been able to get into contemporary because I had grown up reading fantasy. My fall back was magic, and mythical creatures, and fairytales, and creatures of the night. The first real series I read was Harry Potter, that I started when I was 6, so other genres had never really appealed to me. I read to escape to a new place, a place that could never exist except in my head and in the pages of a book. Contemporary doesn't have any of those things. No one has magic, and vampires don't come to life at night. The story is still fiction, but its just about someone's regular life, and I hadn't, previous to Fangirl, understood the appeal of it. But, Fangirl was able to perfectly capture an average persons life, with Cath, and reflect all of her anxieties and worries in myself, making me feel like I wasn't alone. I think that the magic of Fangirl is that it's so easy to find yourself in Cath and be reassured by her journey.
I LOVED Fangirl. It is one of the first contemporary books that I've read. I've been trying to branch out in the genres that I read and I heard a lot of great things about Rainbow Rowell and Fangirl, so I decided to give it a try, and it was definitely worth it. I connected so much with Cath and her experience in college, her anxiety, her trouble making friends and connecting with people, and the fact that she's always off in her own world of books and fanfiction. I think Fangirl is a story that many people will be able to connect to. Cath is put into a new situation when she goes away to college and has to learn to adapt to this new life, while at the same time learning to be separate from her twin sister who wants space for the first time in their lives. I had previously never really been able to get into contemporary because I had grown up reading fantasy. My fall back was magic, and mythical creatures, and fairytales, and creatures of the night. The first real series I read was Harry Potter, that I started when I was 6, so other genres had never really appealed to me. I read to escape to a new place, a place that could never exist except in my head and in the pages of a book. Contemporary doesn't have any of those things. No one has magic, and vampires don't come to life at night. The story is still fiction, but its just about someone's regular life, and I hadn't, previous to Fangirl, understood the appeal of it. But, Fangirl was able to perfectly capture an average persons life, with Cath, and reflect all of her anxieties and worries in myself, making me feel like I wasn't alone. I think that the magic of Fangirl is that it's so easy to find yourself in Cath and be reassured by her journey.