wayward son – Cannonball Read 17

I Might have Enjoyed This More at Another Time

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

March 26, 2020 by Emmalita 7 Comments

I am so grateful that the a couple of things about Wayward Son irritated me, otherwise I would be finding 250 words for unenthusiastic. I was really looking forward to Wayward Son after loving Carry On. In short, Simon Snow is depressed and listless after defeating the mage, draining all his magic into the Humdrum, and finding himself with permanent wings and a tail. He doesn’t think he deserves Baz as his boyfriend and doesn’t know how to talk to him. Baz feels Simon slipping away […]

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.”

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

January 27, 2020 by Caitycat 1 Comment

I’ve been working on this review for a while, and I was finally going to polish it and publish it, but I ended up deleting it, so I’m going to quickly do a new one. I read Carry On back when it first came out (I would normally link to my review, but I never actually reviewed it). I loved it back then, so now that the sequel was being released, and with a bit of time to kill waiting for my fancy copy to […]

I never actually wrote a review of this, so here are some thoughts I typed up to a Goodreads friend instead.

Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) by Rainbow Rowell

December 27, 2019 by narfna 4 Comments

I just never got myself together enough to write more than “THOUGHTS” as a review on Goodreads, so here are some disjointed notes (edited for clarity) I sent over to a Goodreads friend instead: 1. In response to everyone going into this book assuming it was a duology: I thought about this, too, but ultimately it doesn’t bother me too much. I had been going in expecting this to be the end of the story as well, and it very much wasn’t. Maybe on a […]

A Most Entertaining Magical Road Trip, But Missing the Runzas

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

December 13, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The Simon Snow books are fan fiction of fan fiction, from a fan fiction about fan fiction (or something like that), meaning that they are both adherents to and parodies of the Chosen One genre of fantasy story. They do this very well, and are very entertaining reads. In addition to clearly having fun with tropes and stereotypes, Wayward Son in particular adds what could almost be called a brand of emotional realism to the character and story types. In stories like Harry Potter (which […]

Last Bingo, # 8: More Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

October 31, 2019 by Ale 2 Comments

I blame faintingviolet (and crystalclear) for my new obsession with everything Rowell. I was so happily ignorant before cracking one of her books, but now I’m like an addict and I can’t get enough. I haven’t suffered from book-hangover in a very long time, but Wayward Son has me moping around wondering when book 3 is going to hit the shelves. I don’t know what to read next, I have a stack from the library that I’m sending back because everything is just paling in comparison […]

There isn’t really peace when you are done

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

October 19, 2019 by Malin 2 Comments

4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is the second book in a series, and this review will contain spoilers for the first book, Carry On. If you haven’t already read it, you should do yourself a favour and do so. Simon Snow was the Chosen One, destined to bring an end to the threat to all magic. Of course, it turned out that he himself was in fact the thing that was threatening the magic in the first place, and his mentor/father figure (and actual biological father, although none […]

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