Carry on

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Call Number: Teen BOCD Fiction, Teen BOCD / Fiction / Fantasy / Rowell, Rainbow
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Teen BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Teen A/V 4-week checkout	Teen BOCD / Fiction / Fantasy / Rowell, Rainbow	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Read by Matthew Brown.
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savor his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest, and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his roommate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. Simon is the most powerful magician the world has ever known, he never gets to relax and savor anything.

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The YA Romance We Need And Deserve submitted by lcbuday on August 19, 2018, 1:49pm "Carry On" is a triumph. While I obviously appreciated the more meta things about it, such as how it stemmed from fictional fanfiction in "Fangirl," I loved this book in its own right. It's masterfully crafted, its creativity and ingenuity balanced with careful, perfect homages to past "chosen one" stories. The characters are just as deep and complicated as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story, and the romance is just as exquisite (perhaps even more so). Ms. Rowell has done a truly marvelous thing in applying her massive talent for realistic fiction so successfully to another genre, making "Carry On" something like the beautiful intersection of two worlds. I loved Rainbow Rowell's conception of magic as words that have become powerful through humanity's use of them. I loved Waterford, both as an homage to the literary wizarding school and as the perfect backdrop for the story. Most of all, I loved the characters-- tireless, selfless, hilarious Penelope, Agatha and her dreams of normalcy, the Mage and the way his carefully constructed world falls apart. I loved Simon and Baz. The hero and the villain, the Chose One and the Prince of Darkness-- in the end just two boys. Two incredibly important boys who I will cherish forever.
So, A+, Rainbow Rowell. Arguably your best work yet, certainly my favorite.

Carry on submitted by lstorc on July 28, 2019, 10:48pm Carry on is enjoyable with relatable characters. It demonstrates that thin line between love and hate.

Stunning submitted by Family_Coffman on November 17, 2019, 7:24pm If the greatest author of all time was told to take Harry Potter and smash it into Twilight and create a novel that was 80% dialogue and with a maximum of ten characters, each with a totally complete personality, and the right amount of gayness (a lot) Rainbow Rowell's Carry On would be the result.

This action-packed fantasy romance is a can't-put-down novel you wont soon forget. And also the reason that the morning after I read it, my teachers kept wondering why I looked exhausted yet elated, and kept mumbling something about fire and vampires and kissing and Simon Snow.

Great enemies to lovers!! submitted by Mairead Seyfarth on June 18, 2022, 11:19am I don't normally stick around for slow burns but this book makes it totally worth it! A great build-up of tension too!