A coming-of-age tale of fanfiction, family, and first love. Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan.... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she's really good at it. She and her twin, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend; a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world; a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... and she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
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Loved this! Loved the characters, especially Levi, loved the excerpts of fan fiction and the work the fanfic was based on, loved the normalization of reading and writing m/m fanfic.
This book was one of the best realistic fiction books that I've read in a long time! It told the journey of a struggling college student. Her life was falling apart, until she found someone that could help put everything back in it's place.
AGH! What!?
I forgot how much I loved this book! This was so good.
I definitely recommended this to people a while back whenever they said they wanted a light-hearted ya bok, which now that I am re-reading it I realize that was not the case. But omg I am so glad I reread it. It was so fun and nice to revisit the past.