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A review by comegailaway
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
3.0
I loooooove Rainbow Rowell and she absolutely did not disappoint with this one. It took me around 180 pages to get to the point where I couldn’t put it down, but then I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN!! She did such a phenomenal job at building this world of characters. Everything that confused me at first was eventually explained and everything I learned made me love the characters all the more. Simon, Baz, and Penny, you have my heart!! I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
EDIT: Ok, so I made the above review right after reading the book. After it sat with me for a day or so, I have more thoughts. I think the first thing that really is bothering me is that Rainbow kind of acts like bisexuality is not a thing? Like, after Simon and Baz begin to get together he keeps asking himself if he’s gay. He also says things along the lines of “if I like a boy, I must be gay” but he clearly did like Agatha as well. That’s very frustrating. I also think that having as many different POVs as she did was kind of confused and honestly felt a bit cheap. I still did like the book, but. I am also confused as to where the other two books will lead. Everything seems kind of resolved at the end so I’m curious to see what will happen there.
EDIT: Ok, so I made the above review right after reading the book. After it sat with me for a day or so, I have more thoughts. I think the first thing that really is bothering me is that Rainbow kind of acts like bisexuality is not a thing? Like, after Simon and Baz begin to get together he keeps asking himself if he’s gay. He also says things along the lines of “if I like a boy, I must be gay” but he clearly did like Agatha as well. That’s very frustrating. I also think that having as many different POVs as she did was kind of confused and honestly felt a bit cheap. I still did like the book, but. I am also confused as to where the other two books will lead. Everything seems kind of resolved at the end so I’m curious to see what will happen there.