Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow
Rainbow Rowell
2015, 522 pages
Fiction
The latest book by Rainbow Rowell is everything you could expect from one of her books; it has the same wit, charm, pacing and relatable characters, with the added touch of fantasy. Carry On is a mashup of common tropes, and a few unexpected twists.
As a stand-alone novel, it’s an enjoyable read, something exciting and fun to take you to a new world that still looks like the old one. Where it really shines is as a companion to Rowell’s Fangirl (also a delightful read). Carry On started as fan fiction that the main character, Cath, wrote for a fictional set of novels in Fangirl. As stories sometimes do, this one outgrew its humble beginnings, and now can be enjoyed by fans who wanted to know more of what happened to Simon Snow and the sassy vampire, Baz.
Amanda Alwyn
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