just a girl who loves ya books

Wow. Wow. Wow. This book was just magical and amazing and I honestly only have one bad thing to say about it. One. Only one. That's amazing, to say the least. And the only bad thing that I have to say is the Simon Snow aspect of the whole book.

I get that this entire novel was based on Simon Snow, but Simon Snow is basically the equivalent to Harry Potter, and no offense to you Potterheads, but Harry Potter is just not for me. So naturally, Simon Snow was just not for me. All the little Simon Snow excerpts and read alouds by Catch kind of pissed me off and made me not want to read it anymore. But then I got past all the Simon Snow and thought about Levi, and everything was great.

Bottom line: Simon Snow was the only thing that pissed me off. Everything else? Perfect. So perfect.

Rainbow Rowell has a way of creating such realistic characters that I can relate to and understand on a deeper level. My all time favorite character in this book that wasn't Levi was Reagan. She was so awesome. She reminded me of what I'd be like if I had a roommate. Except for the part where she's a shitty girlfriend, we're one and the same. (I'm only partly kidding.) But yeah. Reagan was my favorite.

I don't really know what I felt toward Wren. I thought that the whole Cather/Wren thing was pretty genius (Catherine), but Wren seemed pretty flaky to me. And I understand that Cather used Wren as a crutch her entire life, hiding behind her sister while she quietly wrote fanfiction about Simon Snow. So when Wren and Cath started drifting apart, it naturally took a toll on Cath. Personally, I felt that Cath leaned a bit too much on her twin, but I think that was the point of the book.

Story time: I was doing NaNoWriMo this month, and I got this pep talk in my inbox from Rainbow Rowell. I read it, and I learned that Rainbow Rowell wrote Fangirl for NaNoWriMo. I thought that was so awesome. Like incredibly awesome.

Anyway, I felt that this entire cast was just amazing. And the ending was good. Really good. It didn't give that much closure for the characters, but I don't think these specific characters really needed any. The final book in the Simon Snow series was released and yay! The end.

I honestly would've never read this book if it hadn't gone on sale on Amazon for $1.70 for the eBook version. I hate to admit that since I loved it so much, but I honestly just wouldn't have had the time or money to buy it and read it. I was okay with Attachments and I loved Eleanor & Park. So I had no idea how I was going to feel about this book. And the fanfiction part turned me off even more. I write on Wattpad, and literally in the past year the fanfiction section of Wattpad has spiked so much just because of One fucking Direction.

So yeah. Fanfiction = not for me
Simon Snow = no
Reagan = you're my hero
Levi = just hug me now

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Rainbow Rowell can do not wrong.