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Carry on
by Rainbow Rowell
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this book was a trip
honestly the whole thing felt like one big commentary on Harry Potter in a satire-esque way. the main characters of this book, Simon Snow and Bas Pitch, are fictional characters from Rowell’s other novel Fangirl and represent Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy respectively. It is so wild to me that a fictional novel in her fictional novel was discussed enough that she ended up writing it
The book overall is not good, however the plot is exciting and the harry potter commentary is stellar with an exciting end that left me wishing harry potter was sorta like that. It’s not well written but it’s sorta iconic.
Regarding the Harry Potter commentary:
Simon Snow = Harry Potter
-an orphan raised in a bad place, chosen one, extremely powerful wizard but still somehow average, very self centered
Bas Pitch = Draco Malfoy
-rich kid from rich powerful family, hates Simon, is spooky and clever, is a vampire , pale and blonde
Penelope Bunce = Hermionie Granger
-Simon’s best friend, know it all, likes to solve mysteries
The Mage = Dumbledore
-extremely powerful older wizard, a father figure to simon, doing some shady political things always, does things for the greater good
HumBug = Voldemort
-evil, causing big magical disturbances across the UK, can only be defeated by his equal(Simon), has a dumb name
****SPOILERS BELOW****
I will now refer to the carry on characters as their hp counterparts.
Dumbledore being Harry’s dad is absolutely an amazing plot twist. It really ups how terrible Dumbledore is the whole time and how he’s evil and doing things “for the greater good” which is not good at all but is also a bad parent and very twisted.
Harry having an evil shadow is neat and a nice antithesis. Rather than Harry fighting an evil wizard he’s actually fighting the worst part of himself and in the end makes the morally correct decision.
Harry loosing his magic is also a great balance to him being all powerful, being left with wings tho was quite odd. I also liked how he was told he’s not the chosen one and he never was.
honestly the whole thing felt like one big commentary on Harry Potter in a satire-esque way. the main characters of this book, Simon Snow and Bas Pitch, are fictional characters from Rowell’s other novel Fangirl and represent Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy respectively. It is so wild to me that a fictional novel in her fictional novel was discussed enough that she ended up writing it
The book overall is not good, however the plot is exciting and the harry potter commentary is stellar with an exciting end that left me wishing harry potter was sorta like that. It’s not well written but it’s sorta iconic.
Regarding the Harry Potter commentary:
Simon Snow = Harry Potter
-an orphan raised in a bad place, chosen one, extremely powerful wizard but still somehow average, very self centered
Bas Pitch = Draco Malfoy
-rich kid from rich powerful family, hates Simon, is spooky and clever,
Penelope Bunce = Hermionie Granger
-Simon’s best friend, know it all, likes to solve mysteries
The Mage = Dumbledore
-extremely powerful older wizard, a father figure to simon, doing some shady political things always, does things for the greater good
HumBug = Voldemort
-evil, causing big magical disturbances across the UK, can only be defeated by his equal(Simon), has a dumb name
****SPOILERS BELOW****
I will now refer to the carry on characters as their hp counterparts.
Dumbledore being Harry’s dad is absolutely an amazing plot twist. It really ups how terrible Dumbledore is the whole time and how he’s evil and doing things “for the greater good” which is not good at all but is also a bad parent and very twisted.
Harry having an evil shadow is neat and a nice antithesis. Rather than Harry fighting an evil wizard he’s actually fighting the worst part of himself and in the end makes the morally correct decision.
Harry loosing his magic is also a great balance to him being all powerful, being left with wings tho was quite odd. I also liked how he was told he’s not the chosen one and he never was.