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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 . . .
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2 primary booksFangirl is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Rainbow Rowell.
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Read my review on my blog here: https://theconsultingbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/fangirl-rainbow-rowell/
I adored everything about this book. Characters, storylines, everything.
I will confess that I've never written fan-fiction, and have only read a few stories. That said, I don't think this book is about fan-fiction, so much as (when it succeeds) about moving in to a new stage of life, and the fears, failures and triumphs that doing so can entail. Cather resonated with me–the overwhelming feeling that going to college can engender, the weight of having some social anxiety, the fun and fear of falling for somebody when you're 18.
I also mostly liked how Rowell included and dealt with mental illness in this book.
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