This book was everything I wanted.

Carry On is a story out of a story: in Rowell's earlier novel, Fangirl, the title character writes volumes and volumes of fanfiction of a Harry Potter-like series and Carry On, Simon is the name of her best known fic. Carry On was pitched as “the story that Cath wrote in Fangirl” but it grew from this meta-book idea into it's own solid and highly enjoyable novel. Set in a magical English boarding school the cast of this book faces the threat of a bizarre enemy who is eating power and leaving gaping dead zones in the magical atmosphere. Two boys, long-time enemies (poised on the delicious edge of either killing or kissing each other) have to find a way to work together long enough to solve an eighteen year old murder and save the World of Mages.