Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Sep 22, 2015 Joanie rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, series, kindle, 2016, 2016-reading-challenge

I love Rainbow Rowell but this felt like a poor man's Harry Potter. It wasn't bad and there were some likable characters but you can't try to create something on a Harry Potter scale and do it in one book. ...more

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Jan 04, 2016 Tara rated it liked it

This is my second book by Rowell and I was happy that it was just as witty as her first. Rowell can really create some great characters and Simon, Penelope, Agatha, and Baz...are just that. They are really fun characters.
Although I loved the characters, I found that the plot and story pacing were was not as strong as I hoped it would be. I went from not wanting to put the book down to forcing myself to pick it back up again. There were parts that I really loved and then parts where I was bored. ...more

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Jan 09, 2016 emily rated it it was amazing

Shelves: queers-and-queer-relationships, read-in-one-sitting, ka-tets-found-family, owned-physical, fantasy-urban-fantasy, peak-geek, 2016, magic-witches-occult

I'm speechless. Full review later, when I've cleared the stars from my eyes. ...more

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Feb 19, 2015 Jennie rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I loved Fangirl and was really tickled by the idea that Rainbow Rowell actually wrote Carry On. I enjoyed this book but it took longer to suck me in than I thought it would and there were more problems in it than any other of her books. I felt that she took much too long to introduce Baz. Waiting around for so long for him to appear didn't make sense to me. I also felt like we were supposed to be shocked that he was in love with Simon, but we already knew that from Fangirl, so these little hints ...more

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Mar 12, 2022 Kristina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fiction-fantasy, fiction-romance, fiction-young-adult, eo-favorites, fiction-parody-satire, fiction-retellings, fiction-lgbtq, fiction-lol, eo-series

This might be my new favorite book. I don't know how Rainbow Rowell continues to do this to me, but she does. I love every book I've read from this author, but I was a little hesitant to read this one. I loved Fangirl, but I honestly wasn't drawn in that much by the Simon Snow segments in the book. The idea of a book based on Harry Potter fanfic just didn't seem that appealing.

But, I love Rainbow Rowell, so I decided to at least give it a shot. When I did, I fell in love immediately. This is def ...more

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