Carry On
core novel 2015 Simon Snow Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.15 (338,789 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250135025 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Carry On follows Simon Snow, an eighteen-year-old orphaned magician regarded across the magical world as the Chosen One, as he returns to the Watford School of Magicks for his final year, expected to defeat a mysterious destructive force known as the Insidious Humdrum, which leaves dead patches where magic no longer works. His relationship with his girlfriend Agatha Wellbelove grows strained as she longs for independence from the pressures of his fame, while his vampire roommate and longtime rival, Baz Pitch, vanishes for two months before returning with an implausible account of his absence. Alongside his best friend, Penelope Bunce, Simon is drawn into investigating a death connected to Baz's family and a figure named Nicodemus, uncovering threads of a wider conspiracy that begins to unsettle everything Simon thought he understood about his role as the Chosen One. The novel is narrated by multiple characters in turn.
Where it sits
- Universe: Simon Snow Trilogy
- Series: Simon Snow Trilogy core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Rainbow Rowell
Notes
- From the series record (Simon Snow Trilogy): Complete trilogy following Simon Snow, the least powerful wizard-Chosen One in the world of "the Chosen One" fantasy novels-within-the-novel that a teenage Rainbow Rowell character was obsessed with in Rowell's earlier, unrelated novel Fangirl (2013); Rowell then wrote the trilogy in earnest as its own complete story, not a continuation of Fangirl and not required reading to follow it.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Simon Snow Trilogy: position 1 of 3: next Wayward Son (2019)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Wayward Son (novel)
- Reader rating platform: Simon Snow series
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_(novel)
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