Her latest novel, Wayward Son, is released in October 2019. Rowling herself-and yet still feels like something new. Rainbow Rowell is an American novelist, best known for her Young Adult novels Fangirl, E leanor and Park and Carry On. that youll find yourself grinning as you flip through the pages. But the achievement of Carry On is that, even with a template more or less designed by someone else, Rowell has written a book that conjures Rowling-esque magic just as effectively as J.K. Rainbow Rowells CARRY ON is the ultimate young adult book for HARRY POTTER fans who. Though Rowell’s magical world has a few of its own conventions-some magicians use rings and belt buckles instead of wands there’s no Sorting Hat, but there is a Crucible that pairs roommates spells are cast with an emphasis on familiar-sounding phrases and language-most things map pretty closely onto the Potterverse. If this sounds familiar, obviously it is: Carry On is a full-on, self-aware Harry Potter rip-off.
According to a prophecy, he is destined to fight “the insidious Humdrum” and save the World of Mages. Fan Fiction Comes To Life In Carry On 'Meta' isnt quite sufficient to describe Rainbow Rowells latest, which brings a fictional Harry Potteresque series described in her previous novel Fangirl.
Simon had been an orphan living among “Normals” before “the Mage” scooped him up.
Rainbow Rowell’s new YA novel, Carry On, tells the story of a teen boy named Simon Snow, now in his eighth and final year at Watford, a magical school hidden away in Scotland.