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Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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roodborstje's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Ratings:

Plot: ⭐⭐⭐/5

Writing: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Characters:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Romance:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Diversity:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Overall: ⭐⭐⭐/5

Sadness: 💧/5

Spice:🌶️ /5

The Simon Snow Trilogy has come to end and honestly I'm quite sad about it. Honestly I didn't really have that high of hopes for this book because of how disappointing Wayward Son was but I was pleasantly surprised with this book. This book took me about a day and a half to read, honestly I had expected it to take me a bit to get into the story but I was wrong it had hooked me from page one and I did not want to stop reading it.

Not only do we get to see more of the love story between Simon and Baz but we also get two more love stories in this book. Yep that's right both Penny and Agatha get a love interest in this book and I absolutely adored that. Actually one of my favorite aspects of this book was the love story between Penny and Shepard who I completely loved since the moment they interacted in Wayward Son.

All those people who kept saying Agatha was a lesbian must be so happy right now because they where in fact right. Honestly Agatha liking women makes so much sense to me because in the first book I never felt like she truly wanted to be with Simon and was just with him because everyone wanted her to be and I felt like her interest with Baz was just because she liked the chase and wanted him to want her. Because of this I absolutely loved that we got to see Agatha find someone that she can truly love.

There is one thing I have to say about Agatha's relationship was that I wish it was more developed. It felt very instalovie and I wish we had got to see their feelings for each other grow and a little bit more.

Speaking of Agatha, I absolutely despised Agatha in the other books. I thought she was mean, selfish, and only truly cared about herself but this book actually made me like her more. We got to see what it was like for her being Simon's girlfriend and the difficulties that came with it that we didn't get to see.

Now let's talk about the romance that we are all reading this book for… Simon and Baz. I went into this book convinced that either they were going to break up or one of them was gonna die and I'm so happy that did not happen. I loved seeing them start fresh with their relationship and work on their communication and heal together. Though I do have to say them breaking up for like 20 pages was kinda pointless, I get that it was supposed to bring up the fact that Simon didn't feel like he really gave their relationship a shot in the first place but I feel like their separation should have been longer and Simon should have taken the time to be by himself and work on himself and the mental problems he was going through. Ultimately I feel if she was going to have them break up it should have been for a longer time and have more of an impact on the story and the characters personal growth.

I did love seeing them rebuild their relationship with a more stable base and seeing them grow as people together. I also loved the fact that Simon went with Baz to hunt and was trying to show Baz that he doesn't have to hide that side of him because someone loves every aspect of him and wants to be a part of every part of his life. I loved how both of them helped each other come to terms with a part of themselves that they didn't like. Baz helped Simon except the fact that he no longer had magic and Simon helped Baz except that a part of him was a vampire but that doesn't make him a terrible person. I also loved the conversation about sex and exploring it that was in this book. I could really relate to Simon and his struggle with sexual intimacy due to trauma because I myself struggle with that and it was nice to see Simon deal with that and find a safe place to explore these desires that he feels with someone who truly cares about him.

Another aspect that I loved was the fact that we got to see Simon find his family. It broke my heart that Lucy mom thought that she was alive and got away from the mage when we knew the whole time that she wasn't and I was waiting this whole book waiting for her to realize that Simon is her grandson and when she did it made me so happy. I was so happy that not only had Simon found the family he so desperately longed for but that his grandmother had found a piece of her daughter again.

One of the weakest aspects of this book is the plot. This book is very much a romance and character driven book which normally isn't a problem for me because I'm someone who will absolutely love a book if it has amazing characters that I love and has alot of romance in it but Carry On I feel like did so well combining a very interesting and addicting plot with amazing characters and romance that I absolutely loved and I just feel like Any Way The Wind Blows was missing that.

One of my biggest problems with Wayward Son was that I felt like we lost the magical aspect that we saw in Carry On but I felt like we got some of that back in this book. This book definitely had a lot more of the magical elements that I loved from the first book.

All together I enjoyed this book way more than I did Wayward Son and I'm extremely sad to have to say goodbye to Simon and Baz but I really enjoyed my time reading their story.

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hungryheidi2013's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

not a 5 bc it did nawt give me the buzz the first one did but i <3 them you guys wtf that was so beautiful.... and

agatha my lesbian princess

yeah i can’t stop crying

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fazreena98's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

AWTWB has a lot of tonal similarities with WS compared to CO.

The characters and character dynamics are wonderfully explored/expanded especially their traumas, flaws, internal struggles etc.

Very obvious that RR usually writes contemporary novels instead of fantasy. The World of Mages is interesting but not as explored with as I would have liked. The ending felt a bit rushed/anticlimactic.

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adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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willakramer's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

very light, very fanfic-y. i can see why i got into the simon snow series when i did. this time around, the plot just felt a little all over the place and the characters were somewhat hot-and-cold. also an odd obsession with how simon must be « fat » now that he’s put on healthy weight and is no longer a malnourished teenager.

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steffi_23's review against another edition

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adventurous funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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skudiklier's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

God, I love this series.

It's a bit bittersweet because I've only recently become fully aware of the extent of Rainbow Rowell's issues--namely, her racism in her earlier book Eleanor & Park, and her subsequent lack of apology or any form of acknowledgement of the harm she's caused. Eleanor & Park continues to be her most well-known and successful work, and it's being adapted into a movie, and Rowell still hasn't done *anything* to make up for its racism. Which is inexcusable, and leads me to think I shouldn't support her or her work moving forward.

That said, I do love this series. If I were to think of this book without that knowledge of Rowell's racism in her other work, then I would unreservedly recommend this trilogy, and say this book was my favorite of the three. It's so much about intimacy, and healing, and how to make relationships work, and family, and I cried even when I didn't need to at all. It was beautiful.

But I don't believe the art and the artist can be separated like that--not when she has refused to listen to those she's harmed, or acknowledged said harm at all. I don't think Rowell or her work should be supported, at least for now. I won't be buying any of her future books unless she fully reckons with the harm her racism has caused.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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