Review: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Stand Alone 

Format: Hardcover

Pages:522

Rating: 2 Stars

How I Got It: Christmas Gift

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads

Simon Snow is the worst chosen one who’s ever been chosen.

That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.

Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simon’s face. 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 Simon’s infuriating nemesis didn’t even bother to show up.

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.

Review

Maybe I shouldn't write this review. But I feel I need to so I can move on.

I didn't hate this book-it was just incredibly disappointing. And I've enjoyed the other Rainbow Rowell books I've read.

This was agonizingly slow. And the characters weren't particularly interesting. It probably doesn't help that this is the conclusion to a "series" so there's a lot of backstory/world building missing.

I almost DNF'd this so many times. And it would probably have been a 1 star read (which I don't think I've ever done), but the last 50 pages got excited. So, I bumped it up for that. 

Thanks for reading!

Holly