Carry On

[cornerofmadness]

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Honestly a 3.5 read mostly because a) it's way too long for a book this meta b) Simon is annoying AF and the whole first third is nothing but him c) I figured out the mystery way too early on.

That said I did like the book, even if Simon annoyed the hell out of me. Penny and Baz saved the day. I know this was the book another Rowell book used for that lead character to be a fan of and if it all didn't start as Harry Potter fanfic, I'd be shocked because it feels like it. It's a darker school of magic and you're picked from the start of your time at the school to have a certain roommate. Simon and Baz have been stuck together for years and Simon is sure a) Baz is a vampire b) Baz wants to kill him (and he's not exactly wrong, pretty much the only reason Baz has failed is he's in love with the utterly clueless Simon)

Simon is supposedly the chosen one and he and Penny have been fighting this monster that sucks magic straight out of the world with all the bad parenting/inept adults you'd find in any YA. Honestly it's pretty painful in that respect. But what is this monster? Why does it want to kill Simon? And where the heck is Baz for the first half of the semester?

It shouldn't take 500 pages to answer these questions but it does. It could have stood a lot of editing. Will there be more? I have no idea. GR has it as book one but on the other hand it felt very complete as is. Did I like it? Yes. Did I love it? No. Would I read more? If the library had it yes. They can have my copy of this as is.



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