What I'm Reading: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.” - Rainbow Rowell

I'm in love. I'm afraid that the book review portion of my blog has just become one large Rainbow Rowell rave, but I absolutely cannot help myself.

After much anticipation (I've been in line for this book from the library for MONTHS) I have finally devoured another one of her gorgeous creations. Do I even need to give it stars? Can I give it all the stars?

Rowell has a way of taking true-to-life people in realistic scenarios and make them seem magical. She may be writing about a socially-inept freshman at a college that seems exactly like my alma mater, but she still manages to twist my stomach in knots of excitement, sadness, and hope. I may also have seen a lot of myself in our heroine.

Here's what really gets me. I've read plenty of YA books that made me laugh or cry or jump up and down, but I was always very aware that the people in those books were not real. In YA the unlikely heroine is what Rowell describes as a cliched skinny girl with nicotine stains who makes wishes on dandelions. Her characters are real and flawed and beautiful. Rowell's words are just as beautiful, making me read as though I was breathing the words in.

I highly recommend. My only disappointment is that, due to my budget-induced book-buying hiatus, the library version of this ebook robbed me of the beauty that is the cover of the original hardback.

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