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Title: Carry On
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Rating: 4/5
Are there LGBT characters? Oh hell yes. This is a delightfully gay book.
Brief summary / book review: Ok, this is a meta-meta novel. Rainbow Rowell wrote another book called Fangirl, where the character wrote fan fiction set in society of Carry On with the same characters (though to be clear, this is not that equal fan fiction story; Rainbow Rowell considers this to be canon: ). And it&#;s meant to be an obvious homage to Harry Potter. So that makes it doubly meta. Either way, all you really need to comprehend is that it&#;s adorable damn good. And same-sex attracted. It doesn&#;t shy away from the gay angle, either – it completely embraces it, which is a great thing to see in a YA book.
About the series: Creature a gay reader, I am interested in LGBT books, but I haven&#;t always seen reviews clearly note if there are LGBT characters and how significant they are. These mini reviews are my way of addressing this problem.
Carry On: A wizarding society with gay representation
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell is absolutely one of my favourite books of all time. It’s a nice gay romance combined with magic and adventure, so it already ticks all of my reading boxes; but more than that, I love how the book was conceived and came to be.
In Rowell published Fangirl, a charming and engaging novel about Cath, whose life revolves around fandom. Cath and her sister Wren possess spent years crafting fan fiction together, to the point where they contain thousands of devoted online readers and fans of their own. Their fic Carry On, Simon, is a reimagining of the super-popular Simon Snow books &#; which in Fangirl, are pretty obviously stand-ins for the Harry Potter series.
In Fangirl, Rowell deftly weaves snippets of Carry On, Simon into the story of Cath and her coming-of-age as she enters college and grapples with whether her writing talent is legitimate if it’s based on someone else’s creation. Fangirl is also great, but honestly, the bits of Harry Potter/Simon Snow fanfic are one of the top parts of the novel. So you can dream how delighted I was when, in , Rowell published Carry On!
Carry On
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell: Review
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Magic, Destiny, Romance
Orientation: Gay
Audience: Young Adult
Length: Novel
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Released: May 9,
My Review
This is my second time reading Carry On, since I wanted to reacquaint myself with it before picking up the sequel. Much as I enjoyed this book on my first read, I appreciated it even more this moment around. Rainbow Rowell planted the seed for this story in her novel Fangirl, which is probably my favourite of her titles, although it’s difficult to choose. So, having already been introduced to Simon and Baz and their adventures at the Watford School of Magic, I couldn’t wait to dive into this.
Perhaps it’s little wonder I loved this book, given my lifelong soft spot for school stories. What was so unique about this one, however, was the extent to which I felt I knew the characters before even opening to the first page, as though I were reconnecting with a collective of old friends. I was already familiar with Penny’s brilliance and no-nonsense attitude, with Agatha’s disdain for her own magic, and of course with Simon and Baz’s turbulent enemies-to-lovers romance.
I’m not gen
Synopsis
Half the second, Simon can&#;t even build his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on flame. His mentor&#;s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there&#;s a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon&#;s deal with. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it&#;s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon&#;s infuriating nemesis didn&#;t even bother to show up.
Carry On &#; The Rise and Fall of Simon Snowis a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you&#;d await from a Rainbow Rowell story &#; but far, far more monsters.
Audiobook Review
4,5 stars
This was a whimsical read with a very “British” feel to it. The British-ness came from the characters and dialogs, extremely well interpreted by the narrator Euan Morton.
You have of course Simon Snow.
Born from “normal” parents but gifted with more magic than any mage and dubbed the “cho
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