Rating: 1.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 It's finally time for Cather and her identical twin sister, Wren, to go off to college. They don't want to leave their dad behind, but it's time for them to go off into the real world. Cath moves in with her new roommate, Reagan, and is prepared to spend her freshman year as a loner. The highlight of her day is her fiction writing class. Cath is pretty much addicted to fanfiction, specifically Simon Snow fanfiction. She's been writing it for years, and her most famous fic has thousands of hits per chapter. Throughout the book we get to watch Cath come into her own as a writer and a person as she tries to keep up with school and some sort of social life while also delving into the world of Simon Snow. 
 It's about time I read this book, even if I didn't enjoy it. I volunteer at my school's library every morning, and over time it's piqued my interest that Fangirl always seems to be checked out whenever it's available. I figured it had to be a good book, and I suppose for some people it was. I personally didn't enjoy it that much. For starters, I just didn't have any sort of emotional connection with the characters. I didn't feel for Cath what I think I should have felt for Cath. I also didn't care that much about Simon Snow, so the fact that there was a Simon Snow/Simon Snow fanfic excerpt at the end of every chapter, and some fanfic throughout the novel, didn't appeal to me. I found it a bit of an annoyance, actually. 
 What I can connect with from Cath is her obsession with fanfiction. I completely understand. A few years ago I wrote fanfiction myself, and I totally understood the pressure of having to write SOMETHING because you don't want to let people down. Unlike Cath, I eventually stopped, but I definitely know the feeling. I could understand the want to delve into a universe so deeply that you just HAVE to write something yourself - I just didn't care about the whole Simon Snow part of it. While this book did have character development, it was just hard to appreciate when you didn't care much about the characters. Since so many other people seemed to love this book and the characters I feel like maybe this is just wrong book wrong person, or that maybe exams are just stressing me out too much to enjoy this as much as I should. 
 Overall, this book wasn't awful but it just wasn't for me. I didn't have enough of an interest in the characters or the fictional universe Cath was so obsessed with to really enjoy this. I found some of the Simon Snow stuff annoying and unnecessary at times, and I also think the ending could've been a bit better. I feel like although I wasn't a big fan, you may enjoy this a lot more than I do if you like contemporary. Maybe this just wasn't the right time for me to read this book.