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A review by labunnywtf
Carry on by Rainbow Rowell
4.0
The vibe here is very, "Let's kill a virgin, and write a great Led Zeppelin album."
How many people have picked this book up to read it without having read [b: Fangirl|16068905|Fangirl|Rainbow Rowell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1355886270s/16068905.jpg|21861351] first? How many people are confused as HELL? I should look through the other reviews and find out.
There is an advantage, I feel, to listening to audiobooks. Maybe not always on original reads, but when re-reading a book, I find I catch more things when I'm listening to them being read aloud.
For example, the spells in this world are just not practical. The spell to summon Simon's sword is like a full paragraph. By the time he gets through it, someone could've shanked him through the head. Though considering one of the spells is the words to freaking "Bohemian Rhapsody." HA!
Also, for some reason, I'm tickled by the amount of obscenities in this book. Probably because this is generic HP, and since I don't read HP fanfiction, I haven't come to expect the characters to spit curse words at each other. It's jarring, and always makes me titter like a 12-year old.
The parallels to HP are so fantastic. RR doesn't try to pretend this world is anything other than. It's like if an author took the entire world, and just changed two or three main features. Like instead of a spell being "Ridikulous", it's "Nonsense." Just hilarious.
And in one scene,Malfoy Baz is wearing a suit completely in the Slytherin colors. How do you not love that?
And I do so love the Baz/Simon scenes. My non-romantical self loves slash fanfiction. No shame. And this relationship starts with one of my favorite tropes, It shouldn't work as well as it really does.
And I love that, while Baz has no problem being gay, Simon's sexuality is never really questioned and angsted over. He questions it to himself a couple of times, and Baz questions it, but it's never labeled. That's a RR touch, and it's perfect.
Despite the fact that the plot of this book is still paper thin, I do genuinely want more of this world. I really do need to seek out some Simon Snow fanfiction. I'd love to see what the fandom has done with this world.
And that leads me to wonder, is there [b: Fangirl|16068905|Fangirl|Rainbow Rowell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1355886270s/16068905.jpg|21861351] fanfiction? Is that how meta we've become? Because if so, I have to read it just to say I read Fanfiction about a book based on Fanfiction about a book. This is my new goal. Fuck, I may even WRITE Fangirl Fanfiction. That's how far I want to take this.
And, as with the last time, halfway through reading, I set Fangirl up in the audiobook queue. I love this little universe.
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Almost a year to the day since I read it for the first time. Not on purpose.
How many people have picked this book up to read it without having read [b: Fangirl|16068905|Fangirl|Rainbow Rowell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1355886270s/16068905.jpg|21861351] first? How many people are confused as HELL? I should look through the other reviews and find out.
There is an advantage, I feel, to listening to audiobooks. Maybe not always on original reads, but when re-reading a book, I find I catch more things when I'm listening to them being read aloud.
For example, the spells in this world are just not practical. The spell to summon Simon's sword is like a full paragraph. By the time he gets through it, someone could've shanked him through the head. Though considering one of the spells is the words to freaking "Bohemian Rhapsody." HA!
Also, for some reason, I'm tickled by the amount of obscenities in this book. Probably because this is generic HP, and since I don't read HP fanfiction, I haven't come to expect the characters to spit curse words at each other. It's jarring, and always makes me titter like a 12-year old.
The parallels to HP are so fantastic. RR doesn't try to pretend this world is anything other than. It's like if an author took the entire world, and just changed two or three main features. Like instead of a spell being "Ridikulous", it's "Nonsense." Just hilarious.
And in one scene,
And I do so love the Baz/Simon scenes. My non-romantical self loves slash fanfiction. No shame. And this relationship starts with one of my favorite tropes,
Spoiler
the one who's experiencing the "unrequited love" gets kissed by the one we think is oblivious and uninterested.And I love that, while Baz has no problem being gay, Simon's sexuality is never really questioned and angsted over. He questions it to himself a couple of times, and Baz questions it, but it's never labeled. That's a RR touch, and it's perfect.
Despite the fact that the plot of this book is still paper thin, I do genuinely want more of this world. I really do need to seek out some Simon Snow fanfiction. I'd love to see what the fandom has done with this world.
And that leads me to wonder, is there [b: Fangirl|16068905|Fangirl|Rainbow Rowell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1355886270s/16068905.jpg|21861351] fanfiction? Is that how meta we've become? Because if so, I have to read it just to say I read Fanfiction about a book based on Fanfiction about a book. This is my new goal. Fuck, I may even WRITE Fangirl Fanfiction. That's how far I want to take this.
And, as with the last time, halfway through reading, I set Fangirl up in the audiobook queue. I love this little universe.
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Almost a year to the day since I read it for the first time. Not on purpose.