He lives in a magical school castle that is more of a home to him than anything else in his 11 years of existence. He is the ‘chosen one’ who is prophesied to end the evil that threatens to take over the world. Here was an orphan who is suddenly made aware of his magical powers and the fact that there is a secret magical world the exists right under his nose.
In the first 6 to 8% of the book, all I saw were parallels to Harry’s story. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story – but far, far more monsters.“ The Book When you’re the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything.īased 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. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. 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. 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 Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. 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. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon’s face. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.
“ Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. What I did not expect is how similar the story was to Harry Potter. I researched on the book and found that it is based on the characters from an earlier book by the same author- Fangirl. I keep seeing memes and character drawings for Baz and Simon all over Instagram and I knew that I had to read this book because they seemed to be interesting.