Since my love for all things make up subsided I have rekindled love for books and during one of those Book reviews that I ended up watching I landed up on this book. Truth be told what made me buy the book was the cover and the illustrations in the inside covers. Yes I did judge the book by its cover :P. The story of course too appealed but primarily it was bought because of the illustrations. And was I to know that the main character of this book Cather Avery or Cath would be so much like me I would have bought the book on more stronger grounds.
The story is about Cath who is obsessed about writing Fanfiction on this very popular series (read: Harry Potter) which was awaiting its final instalment. Unlike her twin sister Wren who is more outgoing, loves partying, meeting new people and fraternising in general, Cath on the other hand is the misanthropist. She goes to the extent of not finding the dining hall to avoid striking up conversation of any sort even with her room mate Reagan and instead survives on Protein bars. Then there is the supposed boyfriend of Reagan, Levi who takes a liking for her and who together with Reagan kind of break into her shell. Cath is shown to be this extremely emotional person who would rather take care of her father and sister Wren or write fanfiction (a world in which she is hugely popular) than deal with newness. I felt this character was almost an alter ego to my erstwhile self in college. Who was ill-at-ease with new people, did not know how to make small talk and who rather preferred writing her blog or reading than do anything akin to socialising. I wasn't probably as bad as Cath at this, but I was almost a pariah of sorts. I wore whatever clothes my mom bought me, I cowered under my big glasses and was generally not the mingling kind in anything else other than what required writing or reading. My crushes were so uncannily similar to the kind Cath has.
So all in all, this book is almost like the story of my life, some part of myself from school (my Harry Potter love) and some part from college (the socially awkward self). I couldn't help but love this book and rate it 5 on 5 on good reads. I think I liked it even better than Fault in our stars.
