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 have complicated feelings about this book. I did mostly enjoy it, Simon and Baz are adorable, but outside of that it frustrated me from time to time. A lot of the "Britishisms" felt forced and too obviously an American trying to prove she knows British references and words. The plot never really surprised me, except when it did things that didn't actually make sense. I will say that it reminded me a lot of reading Harry Potter fan fiction, and that might sound weird but I mean that as a compliment. I read a lot of amazing HP fic back in the day.
This book wasn't perfect for me but if RR writes more books in this universe, I'll be happy to read them, as long as they aren't about Agatha.
