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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
I was going to give this 3 stars because while it's been a fun read, it's also narratively a little all over the place and the dialogue is both some of the best and some of the worst in the entire franchise BUUUUT Agatha living her best life as goatherd with her girlfriend honouring Ebb's memory got me choked up. Snowbaz domesticity was really sweet too! Penelope and Shepherd I loved too, I didn't expect to when I was reading Wayward Son, but yeah!!
2nd read 5/2025
Exact same review as I wrote 2 yrs ago. I read/listened to it the same way. Tried to drag it out as long as possible. Still didn't want it to end!!! I love love love this series and her writing!
1st read 2023
Audio / read #3 in series LOVED. After their road-trip across America- Simon, Baz and Penny come back to london to deal with their own shit-Simon has to figure who he wants to be. Baz has to figure out where his step mother is. Penny has to figure out how to life a demon curse from her new crush in Normal Shephard. Agatha has to figure out where Watford goats are. And at the same time-they all have to figure how to deal with the NEW Chosen Ones popping up. Loved it. Satisfying endings. Lovely growth. Sadness and accepting and growing up. I would read part at night and then listen to that but the next day. Tried to drag it out for as long as I could.
Exact same review as I wrote 2 yrs ago. I read/listened to it the same way. Tried to drag it out as long as possible. Still didn't want it to end!!! I love love love this series and her writing!
1st read 2023
Audio / read #3 in series LOVED. After their road-trip across America- Simon, Baz and Penny come back to london to deal with their own shit-Simon has to figure who he wants to be. Baz has to figure out where his step mother is. Penny has to figure out how to life a demon curse from her new crush in Normal Shephard. Agatha has to figure out where Watford goats are. And at the same time-they all have to figure how to deal with the NEW Chosen Ones popping up. Loved it. Satisfying endings. Lovely growth. Sadness and accepting and growing up. I would read part at night and then listen to that but the next day. Tried to drag it out for as long as I could.
I’m sad to DNF the final volume in a trilogy, because I’ve invested two books already, but I don’t want to force myself to read 400 more pages of this. I genuinely don’t even care how the plot resolves.
Carry On wasn’t great, but I loved Wayward Son. Well…most fans didn’t, so Rowell goes back to the vibe of Carry On in this installment. It’s got even less plot than Carry On and it’s slower paced and longer…so, not very rewarding.
There’s like 50 straight pages of Baz and Simon being angsty in his apartment for no apparent reason. It was just angst about nothing. So weird and confusing and boring.
The humor is cringe. The writing style in general is cringe.
None of the plot-lines interest me, nor are any of them going anywhere by a third of the way in.
What a flop.
Carry On wasn’t great, but I loved Wayward Son. Well…most fans didn’t, so Rowell goes back to the vibe of Carry On in this installment. It’s got even less plot than Carry On and it’s slower paced and longer…so, not very rewarding.
There’s like 50 straight pages of Baz and Simon being angsty in his apartment for no apparent reason. It was just angst about nothing. So weird and confusing and boring.
The humor is cringe. The writing style in general is cringe.
None of the plot-lines interest me, nor are any of them going anywhere by a third of the way in.
What a flop.
I enjoyed this last book in the trilogy more than the second one. There are some interesting plotlines for each group of characters. Things do wrap up very quickly though and conflicts are resolved rather abruptly.
An emotionally satisfying conclusion for each of the characters, even if there's not much in the way of plot here. I absolutely adore the audio for this series, read by Euan Morton, so I was happy to listen even though most of what's happening is navigating emotionally complicated romantic relationships through trauma (which is not a bad lesson for teens!). Only the most die-hard fans will make it this far, but the series does have a lot of die hard fans.
This book was easily the best in the series, I enjoyed reading it and watched the characters find their place in the world. Still, not my favorite.
I've waited for this ever since I read the second book that left me wondering and worrying.
This was really something, a lot of feelings and thoughts and of course adventures! I liked the flow of the plot very much, it was hard to put that book down. And it was so easy to come back to the World of Mages. Now everything is neatly wrapped up and I feel a little sad that it is the end, but it is such a good end that I don't mind leaving Simon and Baz and the whole gang...
I mean, this definitely won't be the last time I read those books :)
I just love Rowell's characters, the way she let's them speak is magical.
This was really something, a lot of feelings and thoughts and of course adventures! I liked the flow of the plot very much, it was hard to put that book down. And it was so easy to come back to the World of Mages. Now everything is neatly wrapped up and I feel a little sad that it is the end, but it is such a good end that I don't mind leaving Simon and Baz and the whole gang...
I mean, this definitely won't be the last time I read those books :)
I just love Rowell's characters, the way she let's them speak is magical.
I want to preface this by saying that, in all fairness, I have never been a particularly big fan of this author and had more or less forgotten what happened in Books 1 and 2 of this trilogy by the time I read this one, so I pretty much came into it with no foreknowledge and no expectations; a blank slate, if you will. The problem is that I also ended it with a blank slate, because I’m still not sure what actually *happened*.
I enjoyed Carry On as a Harry Potter pastiche, but I agree with other reviews that say it would have worked better as a stand-alone. This book in particular made me uncomfortable in so many ways, but more than that it was just plain bad writing. Nothing that happened was necessary or made sense, and as others have said, it left me with far more questions than answers. IMO both this book and it’s predecessor would’ve better served as novellas or short stories, since the author clearly had points they wanted to include but didn’t want to go to the trouble of developing them into a cohesive or coherent storyline.
I enjoyed Carry On as a Harry Potter pastiche, but I agree with other reviews that say it would have worked better as a stand-alone. This book in particular made me uncomfortable in so many ways, but more than that it was just plain bad writing. Nothing that happened was necessary or made sense, and as others have said, it left me with far more questions than answers. IMO both this book and it’s predecessor would’ve better served as novellas or short stories, since the author clearly had points they wanted to include but didn’t want to go to the trouble of developing them into a cohesive or coherent storyline.