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Book Review: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Title:  Carry On Author:  Rainbow Rowell Series:   n/a Pages:   517 Publisher:  Macmillan Children's Books Date of Publication:  8th October, 2015 Source:  Bought Synopsis from Goodreads:  Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything. My Thoughts: Before I start this review, I feel I should explain how this book came about. Rainbow Rowell's novel Fangirl is about, you guessed it, ...

Book Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Title:  Fangirl Author:  Rainbow Rowell Series:   Standalone Pages:   459 Publisher:  Macmillan Children's Books Date of Publication:  30th January, 2014 Source:  Bought Synopsis from Goodreads: Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more - she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life. Without Wren, Cath is completely on her own and totally outside her comfort zone. She's got a surly room-mate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classma...