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The teenage Hogwarts dream!
Carry On was a book with its audience in mind - teenagers who grew up with Harry Potter, and also lovers of fanfiction. This book came as an interesting bl... READ MORE
Harry Potter-esque Gateway Book into Fantasy
Fans of Rowell’s may already know of Simon and Baz from Fangirl, as they are the two characters from a Harry Potter-esque series that Cath writes her fanfi... READ MORE
I want to cuddle it!
To explain Carry On to anyone who is not familiar with Fangirl or Rainbow Rowell, is difficult. Carry On was first introduced in Fangirl, as the subject ... READ MORE
A Guilty Pleasure
This is utter YA, Harry Potter fanfiction style cheese and I loved every second of it! I never read Rowell's "fangirl" but that did nothing to hinder the s... READ MORE
A Queer fantasy must read!
I love this book! The characters are so loveable and the story is really well written. The world building is really well done and the plot is twisty and we... READ MORE
"It's just - I really hoped there'd be sandwiches."
There's so much to say, yet I find myself almost at a loss for words. Any attempt I make to convey just how important, how deeply and utterly Carry On has ... READ MORE
Synopsis
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour 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 room-mate 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. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything.
Based on the characters Simon and Baz who featured in Rainbow Rowell's bestselling novel Fangirl, Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN: 9781447298908
- Number of pages: 528
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 41 mm
- Weight: 580g
Customer Reviews
View allHarry Potter style fan-fiction brought to life in this fantastical follow up to Fangirl
Do you like teen fiction?
Do you like LGBTQ fiction?
Do you like Harry Potter?
If so then go read Fangirl, then come back and read Carry On!
In Fangirl... READ MORE
Harry Potter style fan-fiction brought to life in this fantastical follow up to Fangirl
Do you like teen fiction?
Do you like LGBTQ fiction?
Do you like Harry Potter?
If so then go read Fangirl, then come back and read Carry On!
In Fangirl... READ MORE
Best novel I've ever read
To be honest I do not read a lot of books or enjoy them as I find them hard to get invested in, however this book has a slow start but picks up and is a bo... READ MORE
Harry Potter style fan-fiction brought to life in this fantastical follow up to Fangirl
Do you like teen fiction?
Do you like LGBTQ fiction?
Do you like Harry Potter?
If so then go read Fangirl, then come back and read Carry On!
In Fa... READ MORE
If you're a fan of Harry Potter and like reading Fanfiction, GET THIS!!
I thoroughly enjoyed Carry On—more than Fangirl, which surprised me a little.
The story centers around Simon, the Chosen One who has been prophesied to fac... READ MORE
Wonderful
It is simply magical! The characters are amazing, the love story is cute, and oh Chapter 61!!!!!
Listen. Read this book. Trust me.
It’s basically moder... READ MORE
Unexpected and feel-inducing
I unexpectedly and unabashedly LOVED this book and I want everyone else around me to read it so we can squee together about what adorable messes Simon and ... READ MORE
My favorite book
I read Carry On for the first time because I was looking for fiction stories with queer heroes
When I finished it, I remember thinking that I'd give anythi... READ MORE
Book of the year !
How can a book be so brilliant, well this one can. I love this book to pieces and think everyone should read it, this idea is not the most original bu this... READ MORE
Missing Harry Potter? Read this book!!
I’m in love with this book! The characters are absolutely fantastic and the world is so gorgeous! For romance and fantasy lovers, this one is for you!
It was just sort of meh
After years of my little sister getting on at me to read this book I finally picked it up and am feeling very underwhelmed by it. It wasn’t the worse book ... READ MORE
Fanfiction can be Good!
I loved this.
I wasn’t expecting to love this. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting. I knew it was fanfiction of Harry Potter, and with books like Fifty S... READ MORE
Bored of Hogwarts? Try Watford!
This was completely brilliant from start to finish!I had some idea of who Baz and Simon were from the little snippets we got of them throughout Fangirl (a ... READ MORE
practically perfect in every way
I've read this book so many times that I need, and want, to buy it again. I've turned the page so often that the corners are starting to peel and the cover... READ MORE
A fabulous story
A brilliant story! Gloriously queer and truly magical! I had so much fun reading it! It’s my first Rainbow Rowell book and I’m in love! Loved the world, lo... READ MORE
An amazing read
I really enjoyed this book, because it has great representation of LGBTQ+ and the journey of a boyfinding himself, but I also like how without the romance ... READ MORE
I would call it a guilty pleasure but I have no guilt for loving it!!
I have read and enjoyed several of Rainbow’s books. I did read Fangirl but wasn’t a fan of it however was really interested in Baz and Simon. I was so so h... READ MORE
A LGBT+ Harry Potter Kind of Story
It's better than Harry Potter, has the drama, the love and the gayness we LGBT+ are looking for. Finished it in two days, it keeps you gripped. Leaving you... READ MORE
My all time favourite book
Carry On will be, always, my most favourite book ever. I can read it again and again (and I do) and I always find new lines which I fall in love with. All ... READ MORE