Fangirl

· Pan Macmillan
4.2
439 reviews
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A love story about opening your heart, by Rainbow Rowell, the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park.

Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more – she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life.

Without Wren, Cath is completely on her own and totally outside her comfort zone. She's got a surly room-mate 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.

Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn about love than she ever thought possible . . .

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell comes with special bonus material; the first chapter from Rainbow's irresistible novel Carry On.

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4.2
439 reviews
Annelien Van
January 29, 2014
this is most FUN book i've read in months. I loved everything about it and read it in one day. Unputdownable! Cath is moving into the dorms and was hoping to bunk with her spunky twin Wren, but Wren decides to go the independent route and Cath ends up with a stranger... who knows a boy! The story sounds classic, but it's so well-written and Cath is such a real protagonist in a real situation, it feels like an autobiography. What's more, even the people around her sound and feel real... and so do the situations! I loved that Cath wrote fanfiction, but that she also had a personality BEYOND that. I loved that her fmaily was dysfunctional but still realistically so. I loved that the author did not milk the drama but used a lot of layers in the book. I loved that it felt like YA but that I recognized all the situations. Most of all, I was HOPING for Cath, so hard, but still understood where and why it went wrong sometimes. Kudos to Rainbow Rowell, you can WRITE gurl. (now write more about Baz and Simon plz thx my 15-year-old-self is enamoured beyond words.)
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Samridhi Sharma
November 23, 2017
This book draws the reader into its virtual world.. Loved the book.. But the ending wasn't what we were expecting and demand a sequel to be published soon so that we could recieve our expected "Happy Ending" of this book... Otherwise its awesomely awesome!!!
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Danni B
April 9, 2020
Im not the best of critics but I was a bit bored after a while. it wasn't exciting enough for me. I won't remember what it was about in a few weeks. Some people found it funny and that's why I purchased but I didn't find it funny one bit.
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About the author

Rainbow Rowell lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Fangirl is her second YA novel and a New York Times bestseller, as is her first novel, Eleanor & Park. She is also the author of Carry On, inspired by the fan fiction featured in Fangirl.

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