Reviews written by C. L. Lynch

I love books, and I have a LOT of "favourites". But if you ask me to name one book that is the absolute best, most recommended for ANYONE to read, I say, "Stargirl." First of all, you have Jerry Spinelli's inimitable writing style. He manages...

Gabi's voice is excellent - I felt like I could actually hear her talking as I read, right down to the accent on the Spanish words she used. This book was fascinating to me because her Mexican-American world is so different from my own WASP upbringing....

I almost gave up on this book. Several chapters in I was not identifying with the main character. She was so weird and introverted and anxious that she seemed extreme to me, and I'm an anxious introvert. Maybe she struck me as what I could be if I didn't try...

There is nothing I don't like about this book. It made me cry. Lines from it haunted me for days. I wanted to give up on writing because I felt like I could never write a romance this sweet. And I couldn't find any other books to read because they...

While it is still a good book, I feel like this book wouldn't appeal to people who haven't read Fangirl. It's supposed to be stand alone, but unless you understand that it is based on fictional fan fiction, it just reads like bad Harry Potter fanfic, as opposed to Rowell's...