Books 2016 - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:27 pm
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half he sets something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simon's face. 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 is a love letter to love stories and the power of words - to every 'chosen one' who ever had more on their mind than saving the world...
Actually Carry On is the fanfiction that Rowell's character was writing in Fangirl, and in Fangirl I must admit that I tended to skip over those bits, because what Rowell did best was show us the life and conflicts of her real character, the fangirl (it was a fangirl more than twenty years younger than me - but still *g*) That didn't stop me from being interested in Carry On though, because what we got in Fangirl was snippets from the story of
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I think this counts as my first book for the Once Upon A Time X challenge too, because I started reading it on the day the challenge started, even though I hadn't actually signed up yet. It's definitely fantasy, which means I've completed one of the challenges - The Journey (By signing up for The Journey you are agreeing to read at least one book within one of the four categories - fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology - during March 21st to June 21st period.) So yeay!
