There was a point in the middle where I felt pretty exasperated by this book and ready to give up, or at least I was ready for a very disappointing and boring ending. But the ending was great and may have made me embarrassingly weepy in public.

It was okay. It had a very slow start which made me want to stop reading at times, but it improved quickly when the Levi storyline got interesting. I wish this was just a straightforward love story without all the fan fiction stuff. I get that it's a big part of Cath and who she is but I can't even muster a single fuck to give about that side of the novel - I skipped pretty much all of the Simon Snow extracts. I really liked Levi and would've preferred to read more about their blossoming relationship

Oh, this book was bad. Really bad. I have read Giffin before and found that she was one of the better 'chick lit' writers but I have no idea what she was doing with this book.

Some thoughts:
The characters were on the whole pretty unlikeable. There was no depth to their relationships, so I had a hard time buying into the greatness of Ellen and Andy OR Ellen and Leo because neither sounded like the OMGfairytale romance they were supposed to.

Leo came across as a dick and the lame attempt to salvage him and make Margot look bad was pointless.

The secondary, underlying plot line of Ellen missing her mum was just padding and really didn't feel like it had much to do with anything.

I only kept reading because I wanted to know how it would end and the ending did nothing to save the book, it was so wet and the pseudo-philosophy at the end made my eyes roll out of my head.

Avoid, there are so many authors who do this kind of thing way way better.