11/11/2022 0 Comments Carry on rainbow rowell cosplayI’d wake up every morning and think, ‘This will end in flames.” “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. If you ever see someone reading it and appearing calm and emotionless on the outside, trust me.in reality they're actually on the brink of fucking death. Mostly, know that this is the kind of book that will make you so giddy you will have to stop reading for a minute and grin or press your face into a pillow and squeal. Just know that it's basically Harry Potter but gayer. This review is going to be a spoilery mess so if you haven't read the book, DO NOT SCROLL DOWN. I need to do more to deserve the love I'm feeling right now because I think I'm seriously about to get done for tax evasion. This book was soft love that feels a lot like when you're standing in the sunlight and you don’t really want to leave and it somehow gives you the sensation of lazily melting into what’s around you as you take it all in. Honestly my heart is such a soft and sensitive mess right now. Carry On is a dynamic novel that challenges the norm, and for the I respect what the author, Rainbow Rowell set out to accomplish, and I recommend this book to anyone who felt like Harry Potter just wasn’t enough.Hello 911 yes I just finished Carry On and I’d like to surgically remove my feelings As a reader, I was engrossed in the text and the plot, and found myself rooting for the unlikely character the book positions you first to hate. It was a truly readable experience, and each page drifted by easily. Carry On provides a different perspective on fantasy and on the norm, and is able to reach out to new audiences and form connections with groups who are underrepresented. It felt as though it was ripping off a story I love, but as I continued reading I was able to see that it was a different take on the genre that so many have connected to. When I first opened up the book and started reading, I was shocked at the similarities it held to Harry Potter. But would I recommend it to a friend, especially one looking for a book that has characters that aren’t strictly heterosexual? Definitely. Did it have its fair share of cheesy/cringey moments? Yes. Was it the best writing I’ve ever read? No. Let me start off by saying I enjoyed reading Carry On. While the first half reads as expository-heavy, the popularity of Carry On demonstrated a readership for more LGBTQIA+ literature in the mainstream and set a trilogy in motion. As the magical war rushes toward a seemingly destined track, both boys must react or risk the destruction of everything they love.Īs a response to the heteronormativity of Harry Potter, Carry On offers readers another choice to consider in the world-risking, wizard-school genre, crafted as fanfiction, one of the leading access points for LGBTQIA+ readers to recreate media to see reflections of themselves. He did not choose to be a Chosen One, though, just as Baz did not choose to be positioned against Simon. Set in the meta environment of an alternate universe character writing fanfiction about her universe’s Harry Potter, the screw-subtext versions of canonically straight characters, Carry On launches immediately into a rewrite of the final book in the series, relying on readers to fill in the rest.Ĭentered around the “worst Chosen One,” Simon and his suspected vampire of a roommate Baz, the book opens with a world plagued by a powerful magic thief which Simon is destined to defeat. Whether it’s choosing a family or being the “worst Chosen One to ever live,” the question of choice in the face of “destiny” constantly claws its way to the surface throughout Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On (2013).
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