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. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything.
Based on the characters Simon and Baz who featured in Rainbow Rowell's bestselling novel Fangirl, Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.
I'm perpetually suspicious of YA books with wildly popular reputations, though in all fairness, I think YA is just not my genre. But I figured, what the hell, let's try another one and gave Carry On a shot.
Guys ... it's cute. It's entertaining. You don't even have to be a member of the Potterverse to appreciate the parody. Still consider myself an occasional YA visitor rather than a true fan but if I was going to recommend YA to someone, this book would be on the list.
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