Carry On

Ein bisschen albern

Man darf keine zu hohen Erwartungen an das Buch haben, denn es liest sich ein bisschen wie Harry Potter Fanfiction und scheint sich selbst nicht allzu ernst zu nehmen. In einer anderen Rezension habe ich die Beschreibung "Harry Potter auf Crack" gelesen und ich muss sagen das fasst es ziemlich gut zusammen. Die Geschichte ist teilweise vorhersehbar, macht aber trotzdem Spaß. Mich konnte das Buch gut unterhalten.

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I really love this story!!! It was so amazingly written and the characters grew so much throughout this story. This book is primarily about a (I think) 18 year old boy who attends a magical school. He is apparently “The Chosen One”, the most powerful magician in this world, and has to fur fill his prophecy. (At the beginning it reminded me a little bit of “Harry Potter”.) ___________________ Spoiler ___________________ I really like how the storyline took a turn from being a “normal” fantasy-hero story to a more complicated good-evil situation. About the characters: I loved Baz from the beginning. He’s just the kind of character I always like. (Because of that I was kinda scared that he would die🙃). For Penny applies probably the same. They were both such smart people who had their own problems to deal with. And especially Baz made a great development :) At the beginning I didn’t like Simon that much because it seemed like he’d be the typical hero-character and that would’ve been kinda boring. But pretty soon I realized there was more to his character and that I just loved. About Agatha I can’t say that much. All I know till now is kinda irrelevant. Her character seems a little “flat” and because of that I don’t like her that much. What I really loved was the relationship between Simon and Baz and the friendship between Simon and Penny. The relationship was just so wholesome and I loved that they could “heal” each other. (And I really do love enemies to lovers :) And the friendship was so adorable. I loved how they teased each other all the time but also can trust each other completely. All over I really really loved this book and would definitely recommend it!!

I proudly present: the worst chosen one to ever be chosen and the gayest disaster of a vampire you will ever meet!

If I had to discribe Carry On in one sentence it would be: Harry Potter on crack meets heartwarming gay romamce. 5/5⭐️ 1/5🌶 5/5🔥 general chaos and setting stuff on fire Book blurb: Simon Snow is the worst chosen one to ever be chosen. Half the time Simon can't even make his own Wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor is avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simons face. His roomate Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here - it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simons infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up. My favourite post to describe Simons and Baz relationship would be this: Drarry: Who are you? SnowBaz: We are you. But CANON. A true Enemies/Rivals to Lovers with a hell of a lot of obliviousness, a dash of pining and a good pinch of drooling garnished with sarcasm to the max and spells that never fail to make you grin. Every Potterhead, who also happens to be a Drarry shipper will be welcomed with open arms, buttered scones and a pair of sexy fangs!❤️‍🔥 Enjoy! ~Rei

Honestly I really loved it✨❤️ The only thing that kept bothering me was Agatha, i really don’t like her and she annoyed me through the whole book😤 Overall I loved how the enemy lo lover romance developed and i am really looking forward to reading the next part of their story🧚🏻‍♀️ But I also have to admit that I definitely need a small break and read something else because the end really was just wow at one point I had already thought that it would end the way it did but honestly I dismissed the thought for quite some time. Then it happened. Overall I can really recommend the book✨🧚🏻‍♀️

It was very good, but I think that I expected a little bit more than that. Unfortunately I found the story predictable at some points. But it was entertaining nonetheless.

Carry On ✨️ - mir hat die Story gut gefallen - Enemies to Lovers zwischen Simon und Baz war wirklich top - sehr gut zu lesen, die Zitate und Formulierungen der Autorin in dem Buch waren super, hab mir viel rausgeschrieben - der Twist hat mir auch gefallen - mochte aber die ganzen Szenen, in denen es um Agatha ging nicht soo gern alles in allem: - would read again / Empfehlung - 5⭐️ -

„And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I‘m always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I‘m hopelessly in love with him.“

I‘m actually sooo happy that there are two more books! I want to read more from Simon, Baz & Penelope 🪄

read my complete review with lots of pictures and thoughts on the new edition: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.de/ Instagram: @isleepnaked MY OPINION Normally, when I read a book for the first time, I always make notes for my review. Not so with this one. I just devoured it in two long sittings and didn't write a single word down because I just knew that this would be stuck in my head anyway. And it most definitely did. My journey to finally reading CARRY ON As I teasered before, there's a bit to tell about my journey to finally reading this book.. So I always saw those Rainbow Rowell books in the bookstores and had heard so many positive things about them and basically saw them everywhere on Bookstagram. Especially FANGIRL always stuck out to me because I am myself such a fangirl and was very excited to read this book. I finally read it last year and enjoyed it a lot BUT I didn't really enjoy the fanfiction in the story. In fact, it was probably what bothered me most in FANGIRL. And since I knew that CARRY ON was basically about that very fanfiction or just that fanfiction.. that knowledge really drove me away from wanting to read CARRY ON. And still, I knew that this was a gay story and as you probably know if you've been following me on Instagram, I'm such a sucker for everything gay. Give me a gay character and I'm sold - basically. So CARRY ON was still in the back of my head but always with that side note attached to it, that I might not like it because I didn't like the fanfiction in FANGIRL, which is bascially what CARRY ON is about, because it's a fantasy novel and I still am rather cautious with fantasy books because I always worry that I might find them too much or too ridiculous etc., and because of its length - 521 pages seemed quite a lot - especially considering that the few passages about Simon Snow in FANGIRL had already been too dragging for me. So, to sum it up, I had quite a lot of concerns about CARRY ON and might have ended up not reading it if there hadn't been the strong pull of it being a gay story. (I know, I'm so predictable.) Additionally, my friend raved about it and she also loved The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue which was my absolute-favourite book of 2017 - so I thought if she loved both of these, maybe I will too. - And, SURPRISE: I bloody well did! Why my worries weren't needed If anyone of you has some of the same concerns concerning CARRY ON as I had, I can tell you that you should definitely read it anyway! Fortunately, it is nothing like the fanfiction in FANGIRL and never ever felt dragging to me - in contrast, I read through those 521 pages in two days and demanded more and more and more and basically inhaled the whole book. In that aspect it was just so completely different from what I had feared the reading of it to be like. The fact that I read it so fast also contradicted my fear of the high amount of pages (just to make things clear: I'm no one who gets intimidated by a huge number of pages, and besides, after reading and loving Outlander books which always start at 1000 pages, I don't really think that 521 pages are a lot. It's just that I worried a bit about those pages being as dragging as I found the fanfiction in FANGIRL to be - and then 521 pages seemed a lot.) and to be honest with you, I wished it had even more pages. I would also love for the book to get a sequel or just more Baz chapters... *-* The book being a fantasy novel also didn't bother me too much. Being completely honest here, I still wouldn't need fantasy things as wings or a dragon tail attached to a human being, but I can gladly see aside those things if the actual story is so much more than that and so worth reading. And I actually also liked a lot of the fantasy elements. I've loved vampire stories since I was a little kid, obsessed over The Little Vampire, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. So I really didn't mind the vampire aspect in it, I actually would have liked even more of that. And - one just cannot but notice how very similar this story is to Harry Potter. It's a bit hard to describe the feeling of reading it - I wouldn't say that the similarities and the general resemblance bothered me - it's rather that I often asked myself if Rainbow Rowell had to pay some money to JK Rowling for copying a lot in her book. Because I didn't really see any credit being given to Rowling anywhere.. Mostly, my problem with fantasy stories is, especially with high fantasy novels, that it takes me a long while to get into the story, into the world, to really understand it. I didn't have that with CARRY ON, which I think is because it is so very similar to Harry Potter - and if I know anything, it's definitely Harry Potter. The Gay in the Book Then there is my main reason for buying - for wanting to read this book: it being said to be gay. I think the book included the queerness of its characters very beautifully into the story and did never put too much emphasis on it (although I'm very much here for books who do that aswell!). I think that CARRY ON, although it features a very beautifully build gay story, is still also very enjoyable for readers who don't gravitate as much as I do to gay stories, just because the gay romance isn't at the centre of the story but is still given so many wonderful scenes to explore that. Also, I must say that I just loved the swooning of the two characters for each other so much that I wouldn't have even needed for more to happen .... - okay who do I want to deceive here, I obviously wanted for them to get together and make out and was very happy when that happened. (*add grinning emoji*) I just love proud queer characters in books and therefore - and for many more reasons - I just adored the hell out of Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch aka Baz. ♥ I think part of why I read through this book so quickly is because I could never wait to get to another one of his chapters. His chapters were just glorious, his thoughts so precious. He's the ultimate Slytherin - obviously, since this whole book is basically a fanfiction of Harry & Draco aka #Drarry. (So if you ship Drarry, this book will be heaven for you. Just saying. I don't even ship Drarry and loved it so much - I can't imagine how someone who actually ships Drarry will feel about it.) Some things that bothered me a tiny bit but not too much Since I knew that I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars while I read it - always hoping that nothing too bad would happen for me to not be able to do this anymore - I just didn't allow myself to get bothered too much by a few things. First, there's Agatha. I must say that this character never grew on me, that I never really liked her or formed any bond with her - which is why I didn't really understand why it was necessary to include her and especially to have Agatha characters until the very end of the book. For me, her story and her relevance for the story ended very early on in the book and I wouldn't have needed to read anymore about her after that. I just wish that every Agatha chapter had been a Baz chapter instead. :D The second thing that bothered me was the erasure of bisexuality - which, unfortunately, happens in way too many movies, series and books. A character starts out as being straight and then, when he or she starts being attracted to someone of the same sex, sort of "turns" to being gay. There always seems to be nothing in between, which I think is very sad. There's a whole spectrum when it comes to sexuality and I really wish that people would stop only seeing the two options, namely straight and gay. Especially since books, movies and series all would function as such a great representation for their readers and viewers, if they did in fact include more sexualities than straight and gay into their works. What didn't really bother me but what I rather wondered about, was Simon never finding out about his true parents while the reader did. I was sort of waiting for that revelation but it never happened.. so I was a bit confused whether Simon knew about it in the end or didn't.. CONCLUSION I loved this book a lot. I was soaked into the story from the very beginning, enjoyed the writing style a lot and also really liked all the named extras. I fell in love with most of the characters, mostly with Baz who has earned a special place in my heart and about whom I would so love to read more. I was also very much involved in the story and it felt like I was very deep into it while I read it. Although I wasn't too surprised by the plottwist(s) in the story, I still really enjoyed the mystery in CARRY ON. Because of its striking similarities to Harry Potter, it was very easy to get into the book, and it also really made me want to read Harry Potter again - I plan to reread The Half-Blood Prince anyway this year. :) CARRY ON is definitely one of my absolute-favourite books that I've read in 2018 and also one of my favourite books in general - which I did not anticipate at all. RATING I award this book with 5 out of 5 stars.

YesYEsyEsyYesyYEsyyesyesyes YESSO. GOOD.The story felt a bit slow until Baz turned up but from there onOH MY GODRainbow Rowell's detailed writing really made the difference and all the characters seemed so real and there were just constantly important things happening and the love scenes made me go AAWWWW out loud and it was really really just really good !I had high expectations and i think it still exceeded them.I am so sad that that book had to end.5 stars !!

Cosy Romantasy für Zwischendurch

Ein Versuch, der mir von einer Freundin empfohlen wurde, und das erste gedruckte Buch meines Lebens, das ich auf Englisch gelesen habe. Aber eine große Empfehlung für alle, die cosy, kurzweilige Lovestorys mögen (meiner Meinung nach, eigentlich lese ich keine Romanzen) Auch wenn der erste Teil des Buches ziemlich langatmig ist, und Simon mich wirklich teilweise furchbar genervt hat, er bessert sich ab Teil zwei, und hört danach nicht mehr damit auf. Baz ebenfalls anfangs gewöhnungsbedürftig, auch wenn ich ihn von Anfang an mehr gemocht habe als Simon, und er schneller wesentliche Schritte einer Entwicklung vollzieht. Die Story ist rund, aber teilweise sehr abgeschaut aus Harry Potter, was mich nicht gestört hat, in den Rezensionen fand ich "Harry Potter auf Crack" und würde unterschreiben. Nichts, was viel Aufmerksamkeit erfordert und die Plottwists waren... auch teilweise nur auf Papier vorhanden. Alles in allem aber in Ordnung, wenn man das Buch und auch die Charaktere nicht zu ernst nimmt. Slow burn Romanze, ohne spice, aber mit tatsächlich sympathischer und angemessener Charakterentwicklung. Hat Spaß gemacht.