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Rainbow Rowell’s coming of age contemporary novel Fangirl left me with mixed feelings. While the emotions were raw and the characters wholesome, Fangirl lacks a plot. And a reason. The story begins with twin sisters Cath and Wren moving into their dorms at university, in which they are freshmen. Cath and Wren have done everything and shared every experience together since childhood, so things become exceedingly difficult for a socially awkward Cath as Wren informs her that she doesn’t want to share a room with Cath anymore. Wren wants to meet new people, go on adventures and enjoy a thrilling college life. Cath has issues with social interactions – so much so that she lives out of stacked up protein bars for months, in fear of asking somebody where the dining hall is. Throughout the first half of the book, I was relating to Cath as a character. She always wants to stay cuddled up in her room, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, struggles with opening up around new people – a lot of whic...

Ok so psychological thrillers with super unlikable characters going about committing crimes are not unfamiliar to me but I can tell that these can either end up in your best books ever read list, or be a complete let down. I have been on both ends of the spectrum with books like The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine and He Started It by Samantha Downing, but this one was really good – better than I expected it to be. The plot starts with Ted Severson, whose wife has been cheating on him with Brad, her building contractor, sitting in an airport bar. He is approached by Lily, a stranger to him, to whom he opens up about his problematic married life over some margaritas. Lily proposes to help Ted kill his wife. And there begins their quest of murder. The character Lily normalizes murder in every way possible, but that’s not something that bothers me. Its how the character is made. “ Truthfully, I don’t think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. W...