Blurb Summary:
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?
I'm not usually keen on contemporary books like this but everyone was buzzing about it, so I had to pick it up. It didn't disappoint but it didn't live up to all my expectations hence the '4 stars'. Cath the main character was the typical fangirl and was an accurate representation though she was getting very annoying come the middle of the book! I liked there wasn't too much romance that it overrode the storyline, it was very even paced. Another I wasn't a fan of was the little snippets of fanfiction, I ended up skipping them all completely. I think for a book that was written in third person it was very easy to be engrossed into the story itself and to have a clear voice for Cath. Overall I liked the book and I cannot wait to pick up another book by Rainbow Rowell.
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