I admit, I expected too much. 
 I liked young adult, contemporary romances. There are dialogues between young couples or best friends or even frenemies that are deeper than my train of thoughts. The character development also resounds with me, as a young adult myself, although those words defeat the idea of the line between the young and the grown-up. I am one, and it is very ironic to me. The social media might be the culprit of the modern young adult, and Fangirl is a perfect reflection of how teens trying to be adults or adults trying to be teens go through. It is quite odd of how I both relate and annoyed by with the character of Cath, and while reading through, it felt like talking myself to snap out of it and just let go. 
 The downside would be, I expected to much development on the romance, on facing grief and on managing mental disabilities. It was like an open-ended story, but it is the bad kind.