Carry On
Series: Simon Snow #1
Genre: YA Fantasy
Original publication date: October 2015
Book description: 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 starts 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.
Thoughts:
For some reason, I have been putting off rereading this book. I mean I did pace it in one or two TBRs before, but I just never got around to it.
So this book I read initially in 2018, I sincerely did not remember much of anything, but then I just started to read it and it all came back to me.
I really loved the characters, Baz, Penelope, Simon even Agatha. They are very realistic teenagers and their struggles, they focus on a war, they feel overwhelmed and do not want to just fight. That makes it so realistic.
The romance, the denial, the petty antagonism between Baz and Simon, the friendship between Agatha and Penelope, between Penelope and Simon.... There are a lot of things I love.
I still enjoy it, but I was more annoyed with them this time around than I remembered.
The war is going on but that is not very in your face, we saw it in the background and the mysteries and plot reveal, were easy to predict but I mean I was not expecting to b shocked. Even being a reread I was like, mmm, it's too obvious even if this was the first time you can figure out the twist
this happened in:
-The kidnapping
-The vampire attack
-The mysterious words of the vampire Nico- I will not tell you, it was one of you
-The creatures telling Simon, its one of them (the magical people)
There was always only one person who benefited from the war.
But I mean you love them, the snarky comments, the back and forth banter between the friends, the family examples The Pinch family they might be prejudiced but they still have each other's backs, the positive portrayal of the stepmother given. I love all the relationships here. Even the one that started it all Lucy's, it makes sense, she was totally in love and people accept all kinds of things for it, she was diluted and expecting love to overcome it all.
What I had forgotten was the ending! How could that be?
So I enjoyed the ending thoroughly. But I did lower the original rating from 5 to 4, I mean I still think it's a high rating.
So I read this one, mainly because the second part was published recently, but I am scared to read it. Should I?
There were mixed reviews after its release and I am not sure if it's a good idea. You know sometimes something good is tainted by the very bad sequel.
Funny thing because I did initially place this in my reread on the first quarter of the year in order to get to the sequel, I do want to finish the started series, I dislike to be in the middle of so many, but oh well. I'll ponder and change my mind back and forth for a while more before deciding if giving up on the series or just jumping right into the next one.
If anyone has read both of them and can share their experience, is it a good time or should I just skip it?
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