Leider nicht den Erwartungen entsprechend
Bewertet mit 1.5 Sternen
To write this is really painful.
I loved E&P by Rainbow Rowell. It got me on so many levels that it was almost scary. Every single line in E&P got my approval.
That's when I started following Rainbow on twitter and got to "know" her a little tiny bit better and was enchanted.
So Fangirl was a Must Read without even knowing what it would be about.
And then, when we all knew about the story, it was almost painful to wait all these months to get the book.
When Fangirl got released on september 10th I bought it right away and started reading that second. I was at work but read all day long. And night. And the next day.
Everyone so far loved it.
I got selected for this awesome Tumblr bookclub and everyone loved it.
I kept reading.
Somewhere along the middle I thought "keep reading. You'll get that lovefeeling. It has to be somewhere in this book. You have to love it!"
You see, it was missing, that feeling to read something special.
I kept thinking about "whats the actual storyline? Is it about Wren and her problems? is it about the mother? Is it that non existing Lovestory? Is it about Cath and to learn to stand on her own 2 feet and coming out of her fangirlshell and start enjoying life?"
There were just too many things going on. Not enough to lose track but enough to forget whats the book about. And honestly in the end I still don't know what this book is about.
Like if this book is about the deadline of this amazing fanfiction she is writing than , and I'm sorry, thill the last 2 chapters it wasn't clear enough.
If it was about the lovestory, fangirl finds boyfriend, then for my taste there was not enough...love.
Till that awesome bookreading scene I didn't even noticed Levi was interested. he really just seemed friendly. And after that scene there was no real chemistry. not for me.
I did liked the drama over Cath sister and mother and wished that there would be a conclusion. Like Wrens problem is because of her mother, that there would be some sort of revelation... but it just...just.
Yeah, the actual fangirl part ist cute. I 've read fanfictions too. I still do. Laglemons Avengers fanfiction are better than several books I've read this year.
But I was really distracted by the actual fanfiction parts in the book. Why would I want to read a fanfiction of a nonexisting fictional book that I don't even know about? It was simply too much and in the end, I'm sorry, not important to the storyline.
There were several more things I didn't liked: the constantly eyerolling of Cath and Reagan, Nick ( what was his purpose? like at all?) some scenes with really too long dialogues and really no meaning. Like when Levi wants to cary her laundry... And then you got the charcters. There are not many so you should think that it would be possible to get an idea to all of them but beside Reagan, which was lucky to get 3 great lines and nice scenes, you don't get a grip of any of them beside Cath. Somewhere after 60% I also forgot that Cath even had a sister.
In german there is this awesome word that describes this book perfectly: dümpeln. es dümpelt vor sich hin. to stagnate.
I really wanted to love this book. I really did. maybe that was my problem, maybe my expectations where too high?!