It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story — but far, far more monsters. Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him.
His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. We truly believe the KIN CARRY-ON will be both a beautiful and mindful travel companion for you — if you decide to return it, you can return it anytime within the first days of purchase see our return policy.
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As I always do when I think I might enjoy an author's other books, I checked out what else she had out once I was done with Fangirl, and saw Carry On was about to come out. I thought about it for a bit, forgot for a couple days, then went back after it'd been released and downloaded it. I'm so glad I did. Carry On was so much fun, with magic and prophecies and a Chosen One and a nemesis and romance without being what you expect when you read about a book having those things. The characters are constantly defying tropes without ever feeling like they're doing it specifically to thumb their noses at the genre, because they feel real as they are.
And can I just say how much I love Baz? I remember Cath in Fangirl calling him an "unreliable narrator" in her version of the Simon Snow universe, but in Carry On, he's the absolute best, and his POV chapters ended up being my favorites in the book. I found myself laughing out loud or wanting to at his internal observations many times, which can be difficult to bear when you're listening on the bus at 4am. I would suggest reading Fangirl first, if you haven't, before Carry On. I don't think it's necessary, but it will probably increase your appreciation of this story.
I'll leave by saying that this book, while extremely fulfilling in and of itself, also left me wanting more and more and more of this world. It's already a multi-listen book for me, and I'll probably even get a physical copy of the book, which is something I do so rarely these days. Would you consider the audio edition of Carry On to be better than the print version? The narrators made the book sound far better than it would have in my head.
I've found they can make or break a book and this one was cast well. What did you like best about this story? Didn't buy this book at first, not interested in a Harry Potteresque story and wasn't sure it would be as good as her others.
I am happy to be wrong. I liked how Simon's magic was unpredictable he's far from perfect and his nemesis, Baz is sardonically witty. The ending was a nice surprise, Rowell strayed from a predictable conclusion. His voices were spot on. Baz sounded broody, bored, and slightly antagonistic. Loved it.
At first I thought this is a boring story until I stuck with it long enough for Baz to arrive. Then the story was intriguing enough to stick with until the end. A sweet love story. I couldn't help but see Harry Potter all the way through this one. BUT I really really loved the relationships so I still recommend it. Plot is a bit weak but the interactions between the characters were great. I read Fangirl, and when my friend told me that this book was out and that it was a continuation of it, I was beyond excited to have the story continue.
It didn't register that Carry On was the name of Cath's fan fiction story. Then I realized that the main character or characters would most likely be male I'm a little biased about the gender of my narrators.
But I loved it all :- and it definitely helped that the reader and setting played into my Anglophilic tendencies. And that though there were multiple viewpoints, they were all in first person another bias of mine. The writing was good, each person's voice was distinct.
Definitely worth five stars and your reading time. I would recommend this to fans of both fantasy, and Rainbow Rowel.
This book was even better the second time around. I knew the direction of the story and could collect the remnants I missed the first time around. I'm so pleased Rainbow Rowell decided to make this book following Fangirl also a favorite! A classic tale of good versus evil, but who is actually good or evil?! The lines become blurred when boy loves boy and boy notices boy back!
A Harry Potter homo-erotic fan fiction triumph. I'm not mad about it. I love it for it. A direction JK Rowling never would have taken her series, but every female reader wished it had I loved it. It is in the pile of books I'll read over and over again! I really enjoyed this book, especially as a continuation of "Fangirl". Made me laugh lots, and I loved getting to see more of Baz and Simon falling in love that I'd heard about in Fangirl.
Even my husband liked it, minus Agatha, but I still count that as a win! SO excited for Wayward Son!!! I was quite surprised I liked this book, I wasn't sure if I would. I read Fangirl and liked that do wanted to try this out, I am glad I did. The beginning of the book was a little slow but it picked up after a bit and kept me engaged and wanting to know what happened. Worst period of my life. And well, by now I can usually tell, after pages, whether I'll like the book I'm reading or not.
In this case I didn't need pages, because I knew after chapter 3 that Carry On was doomed for me. But, as I almost always do, I carried on AH. This is how it went. Warning: it's bad. Like, really bad. You can, but please, don't.
It's ridiculous. And actually, I wasn't even finished with chapter 2. Every time I tried to talk to him, he told me he was in the middle of something important.
That's Order of the phoenix. He was an exchange student at Watford. Micah plays baseball, and he has a face so symmetrical, you could summon a demon on it.
And for a while, hanging out with the goats was pretty much my favourite thing. Which Baz had a field day with. And Simon following Baz around I know there are so many people who were able to ignore all the HP references and similarities, but I'm not like that.
If you write: "Why did I have to fight the Humdrum? The Mage has answered that question a dozen different ways over the years: Because I was chosen. Because I was prophesied. But none of those are real answers. Penelope has given me the only answer that I know what to do with. And someone has to.
Were they supposed to be fun? His wand is out. Suck it up! Steady on! Hold fast! Scooby-DoobyDoo, where are you! If it's a comedy, well, it isn't funny. At some point Simon uses this spell: "It is what it is! I'll tell you what it is: the crappiest magic system ever. The first half was so slow I wanted to DNF it so so so badly. I just Actually none of the characters truly did it for me. Penelope was supposed to be the Hermione of the group, but she really wasn't able to shine in my opinion.
Agatha was just silly, easy. Seriously, it was Predictable at best to be honest. I liked Baz he's actually the only thing I liked in the whole book. I didn't like how silly Simon's character development was. Like, it was clear that his relationship with Agatha was doomed come on, it was so ridiculous but sadly his first move towards Baz felt very anticlimatic to me.
I mean, he kissed Baz and that was it. There's not any character development when it comes to Simon's sexuality or personal growth and he didn't even think much about his relationship with Baz. It didn't feel natural to me. Is there anything I actually liked? I'm not fangirling over him, but he was like, the only character that seemed an original character and not just a poor copy of the original ones. Please please tell me this book is the result of a riddikulus spell.
It would be acceptable then. So, listen, lots of people loved Carry On, but I didn't, couldn't and barely managed to tolerate it. When I heard that Rainbow Rowell would publish this I was so so freaking excited, you have no idea.
I even wrote a pre-review with cute Legend of Korra gifs and that says something but as time passed I realised that I liked the idea of it more than anything. This is my opinion, and I don't want to offend anyone, but to me Carry on felt like a bad joke. One of those jokes that are supposed to make you laugh but make you cringe instead.
It gave me this fanfction vibe that I couldn't shake off. And I'm sorry, but I've read better fanfictions. I love fantasy and I feel like this is kind of insulting for the genre. And if it was meant to be a parody it was even worse because I'm not laughing. Please Rainbow, stick with comtemporary novels. If you got to the end of this review and didn't kill me, ponies for you.
Literal magic. I enjoyed it tremendously. The beginning, though, was a chaos for me. It started off too strong, with too much information thrown at me, with no concept. The story started off from Simon's 8th year in Watford. So, there were many things that had happened in the previous years that the author tried to explain briefly. The first pages were very confusing and disorienting for me, I was trying to keep everything in my head, but after a while I succeeded.
And I enjoyed the ride extremely much. I have to admit, I should have read this book before Fangirl I would have a better understanding of Cath's obsession with this world and I would have grasped the meaning behind her fanfics. I should read the passages now, actually. I have heard that many people never read the passages of Simon Snow between the chapters. I was one of the people who did, knowing I would read this book next. The world of Harry Potter was very prominent in this book.
Which was what the author wanted to do, I suppose. There hasn't been an official statement that this world is based off on Harry Potter, but come on. I relished in the fact that the spells were lyrics from songs or common phrases or funny expressions, they made the book so much more unique. And it was like Rainbow was parodying her own book, which I found hilarious. I don't even know if "parodying" is a word but we'll go with it. Also, oh Rainbow you're such a Drarry shipper.
I have never been one myself but how can you not ship Simon and Baz? But we'll talk about them later, cause I have feels to discuss. Plenty of plot parts were similar to Harry Potter, too. The feud between the families, the Chosen One trope, the Humdrum being basically Voldemort plot. But they didn't seem like she copied off of J. Rowling work, it was everything its own world.
And I truly appreciated that. I was fond of Simon and Penelope's relationship so much. It was irrevocably platonic, which doesn't happen often. Authors always love to make a boy and a girl fall in love or have romantic feelings for each other or something romantic happening. This wasn't the case here. Their friendship was friendship goals. They were always there for each other, supporting each other, accepting each other. It was beautiful. I got the vibe so strongly, sometimes I would picture Hermione in her place!!!
And I loved her to bits! Agatha on the other hand She shouldn't even have existed. What a wasted opportunity of a character. She was literally useless and totally unlikable. Her chapters made me die inside a little.
Her relationship with Simon was toxic, she treated him like trash, they were both bad for each other. And when I thought she would get a character redemption arc, she ran away. She left her friends I totally disliked her and I hope we don't see much of her in the next book. Oh shit dawg.
It made the anticipation so much better. And when he appeared, I was dying to know more about his character. He was pictured in a specific way by Simon and everyone else, and there was so much mystery surrounding him. The anticipation was truly worth it. Let me tell you, the enemies to friends to lovers trope is my favorite.
I can't get enough of it, especially when it is done right. And with those two, it was incredible. They were the cutest shits I have ever witnessed! When Baz first admitted that he is in love with Simon, I was surprised to be honest. I was certain the whole situation would start off with Simon.
And I wasn't wrong. Which I didn't expect either. Good job Rainbow. I'm thrilled that I can add one more ship to my ships collection. It's always frustrating when I read a new book and don't add a new ship to my list. I'm a ships person, shoot me. I have to discuss here some punctuation issues that really bothered me in this book. I watch lots of Booktube and there are many people who talk about punctuation and editing and all these things.
I didn't used to notice them, but after them, I do. Thanks, you have ruined my life. In this book, there were so many redundant parentheses, I wanted to shoot myself. Also, dashes. Dashes everywhere.
But the dashes weren't as significant as the parentheses. Sometimes, I would count three uses of redundant parentheses, in the same page. After I noticed them, I would read the sentence again and a parenthesis wasn't needed at all. They just existed to piss me off, it might seem. But anyway, I feel like this is lazy writing and it shouldn't exist.
Overall, this book was truly something magnificent and magical. I can't wait for the next book, which comes out too late for my liking! Fucking Supernatural feels, man. The smartest use of titles I have ever seen. I have to say, Rainbow Rowell you have seriously pleased me.
I have read three books of yours, and all of them got 4 starts from me. I will read more of your books in the future. And till the next one K BYE! View all 13 comments. So… Carry On. I really wanted to like this book.
It had potential. But ultimately, this book let me down. Frankly, it was a bit of a mess. The clear and definite answer to this is: no. People So… Carry On. People might disagree with me on this but I feel that if you haven't read Harry Potter, this book will make no sense to you. Carry On is basically bad Harry Potter fanfiction. There, I said it. But this book just relied on Harry Potter nostalgia too heavily. See, when I first heard people talking about this book I was very intrigued.
People kept saying how well Rainbow Rowell plays with common fantasy tropes, how she inverses them brilliantly. If you know my reading tastes at all, you know how excited I get when I hear about these kinds of books. It was trying too hard to be different, was too satirical and, as a result, felt disjointed. Rainbow Rowell could have turned him into a layered anti-hero, there was so much potential for a massive plot twist and an OMG moment but she gave way too many hints.
Also, she actually ended up turning the mage into a villain instead of an antihero which greatly disappointed me. To be honest, I actually thought he was kind of stupid. I thought his inner monologues were interesting, especially his moral dilemma about vampires. I wish she would have explored his inner psyche more, would have gone deeper into his thoughts.
His character was good, but could have been better. I also really enjoyed Penny, she was a smart, strong, independent female character, but again, she was basically Hermione.
Then we have Agatha who is an unnecessary character if ever I saw one. She added nothing to the story and her POVs bored me to death. It felt like the only reason she was there, was because Rainbow Rowell wanted to have an original trio, just like in Harry Potter. Romance: In the beginning, I loved the romance.
New OTP, I thought. The pre-relationship angst was on point. But when the love interests were finally together, I lost all my feels. It was an absolute mess. This book was boring. It was predictable through and through.
Rainbow Rowell did try to write in some plot twists but I saw them coming from miles away. The novel starts off with a whole lot of info-dumping since we start in what is supposedly the seventh book in a series and after that the story just kind of meanders around pointlessly.
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