I wasn't expecting this book to live up to the hype, I went in with my guard up because I had been rather underwhelmed from all the hype of Rowell's other book, Eleanor and Park, but I shouldn't have worried because this one deserved all that hype. 
 I related to Cath so much, we just (just) had such a similar reaction to starting to university and I felt it in my bones. It was actually such a relief knowing that I wasn't alone in that experience, even five years into university I didn't know that anyone else had ever felt that way. This book had me nostalgic for my freshman year of university, for my sisters, for writing, heck it even had me nostalgic about Harry Potter (I may have teared up).