The one who is has come when the world of the Mages need them the most. Simon Snow is the most powerful mage of all time. She’s able to give little winks and even a little commentary on other franchises while still remaining it’s own thing. Obviously, Harry Potter is a huge influence but so is Chronicles of Narnia and a little Twilight among others. In a way, Carry On is much a love letter to the fantasy novels of her life. So this is new territory for her but she passes with flying colors. Her other books have all been contemporary novels though Landline does have the fantastical element of having a magical phone that allows Georgie to talk to her husband Neal from the past.

The other thing that makes this different from Rainbow’s other book is that it’s a full fledged fantasy novel. I would say it’s in it’s own unique category. How can an author write a fan-fiction of her own work? I guess this is more canon then anything else since she is the original creator. Rainbow isn’t really writing her own fan-fiction. Carry On is the final book of the Simon Snow series but it’s not Cath’s story or Gemma T.

Cath spends Fangirl trying onto finish her fan-fiction before the author of Simon Snow series, Gemma T. We got a few snippets of Simon and Baz through Cath’s writing, in which she took the characters from enemies to lovers. In Fangirl, Simon and Baz are characters in a beloved fantasy series that Cath was writing a fan-fiction for. When I Rainbow Rowell announced that her next book would be Carry On the entire internet let out a huge SQUEEEE!! For those who may not be familiar with her work (which really you should) in her 2013 novel, Fangirl, she introduced us to Simon Snow, a Harry Potteresque “chosen one” and his nemesis/roommate Baz.

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