Cath is the ultimate Simon Snow Fan.
Okay, lets clarify this, the while world is a Simon Snow Fan.
But for Cath, being a fan is not enough, being Simon Snows Fan is her whole life ... and what makes sense is that she is really good at it. Cath and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the world of Simon Snow series when they were small and it was the single things which got them both through their mother leaving. Reading and rereading the series. They then began to hang out is the Simon Snow forum, writing Snow fan fiction and dressing up as the characters when there was a movie premiere.
Cath's sister however has mostly grown away from the fandom, for Cath though she is not able to let go and she doesn't want to.
Now that they are both going of to college, Wren has told Cather that she doesn't want to be roommates. For the first time Cather is completely on her own and thrust out of her comfort zone. When she arrives at college she finds that she has a surly roommate who has a charming and always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks that fan fiction is the end of the civilised world and a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words. During this unsettling time, she is not able to stop herself from worrying about her dad, who is a loving and fragile individual who has never really been alone.
For Cath, the biggest question is - Can She Do This? Can she make it without her sister holding her hand. Is she ready living her own life? Can she write her own stories? And if she does this is she able to leave Simon Snow behind is she is going to move on.
Well what can i say ... I have read this book at least 4 times and I love the characters more and more every time that I read it. I love this book and the way that it shows how important it is to read and to voice your own stories especially when you are going through troubling times. It helps to show how to expect the unexpected when put out of your comfort zone, to do this Rowell uses descriptive scenes which show how the human brain working through these situations and growing up in a new world after the loss of a parent. This is one of those stories which show that Cath and Wren come from a broken family and they Simon Snow was the catalyst for them to start healing and gives them an outlet for pouring their feelings into and work through the thoughts which would have led them down a very different path. I love how this book is structured and by this i mean that you have a chapter which is around Cath and her life and then the next chapter is an exert from the Simon Snow books. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good love story which has been racked with pain in their history.
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