This is the story of one woman, and of all women. Found insideDeputy United States Marshal Mitch Knox apprehends fugitives for a living. The sequel will be called Wayward Son and Baz and Simon totally look like Sam and Dean on the cover, and it makes me wonder if Supernatural will be the next fandom to get Rowell's spoof/parody treatment.I kind of can't wait.Found insideIn The Rise of the Ultra Runners, award-winning author Adharanand Finn travels to the heart of the sport to investigate the reasons behind its rise and discover what it takes to join the ranks of these ultra athletes. And I'm calling it a romance because it has an HEA/HFN, so neener neener.
CARRY ON RAINBOW ROWELL GOODREADS FULL
There will be another book in the series coming out in 2020, but Carry On is definitely a complete book in and of itself, with a full storyline that comes to a very definite conclusion. I'm going to be so crabby if the sequel comes out and he's just "Gay For You" because that trope is stupid and awful. Being bi is a thing, and it's a VALID thing, and I just wish Rowell had straight up said that the character in question is bi. If you are into girls, and then are also into boys, that does not mean you were straight and now you are gay.
My ONE major problem with this is the bi-erasure happening.
I gobbled it all up and then licked the bowl. This book is a big bowl of vanilla ice cream with those fudge-filled chocolate stars, chunks of peanut butter cups, and a fudge ribbon. I love getting the inside look inside each of these characters, because the reader gets to see motivations and drive that they otherwise wouldn't get with a single or even dual first person POV perspective. The Lucy chapters really help the reader piece together what happened and the overall story. This book is told in the first person present tense and switches off between the POV of several different characters, including Simon, Baz, Penelope, Agatha, The Mage, and a (ghost?) named Lucy, as well as a few other side characters with some very short bits of input. Simon is a Gryffindor to his core, rushing in without thinking and punching things that he sees as evil/bad/a threat. Rowling."Ĭarry On is a look at Chosen One tropes and it sets them up and knocks them down again, twisting them, flipping them on their heads, and/or pointing out how ridiculous many of them are.
You horrible, horrible warden of young children.) Anyway, point being I was like "Oh, this is just Harry Potter fanfic that is trying to not get sued by J.K. They're in their final (8th) year of magic school, and there are casual mentions of all the dangerous adventures Simon and Penelope have gotten into in their previous years, with the head of the magic school The Mage aware of and casually throwing them into danger (Oh, Dumbledore. Then you have Simon's best friend Penelope who is the smartest witch/mage/whatever in school (who somehow manages to be very Ron & Hermione at the same time), his sort of stick-in-the-mud girlfriend Agatha (who has Hermione's more tattle-tale characteristics), his nemesis/roommate Baz who is from an old mage Family (pureblood), beautiful and cold, and a vampire to boot (lookin' at you, Draco). There's the Chosen One, Simon Snow, an orphan raised by Normals (muggles) who is crazy stupid powerful and has some sort of link to the Bad Guy, the Insidious Humdrum (He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named). I started this book and I was like "Ughhhhh I don't know about this." Told my BBF (Best Book Friend) about and my summary was so far it's basically a sort of spoof on Harry Potter. 5 stars is not anywhere near enough stars for this book. Goodreads needs a supernova exploding stats rating.