Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
I liked this so much better than Eleanor and Park, but the end disappointed me. It just...ends.
Cath is a twin. Her mother left when she was eight. Her dad is a manic depressant. She and her twin, Wren, go to the same university, but Wren wants her independence. This is a problem for Cath, at first.
Cath is obsessed with the "Simon Snow" book series, which sounds like a cross between Harry Potter and Twilight. She is so obsessed that she writes fanfiction. Like, it consumes her life.
She meets a boy, Levi, who is the former boyfriend of her roommate, and they hit it off. Even though she is a freshman, she takes a junior level English course, where she meets a boy who takes credit for her work. Her twin gets alcohol poisoning. All of this, while interesting, is only, really, on the fringes of the story. Most of this book is about Cath's fanfiction, and this deadline she thinks she has.
Again, the end was frustrating. No denoument. Could've ended better.
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