Hey there internet!
Today i'm here with the first book review of 2016!!
The first book i read this year was Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
3/5 stars
Now this might just make me the most unpopular person in book world but...i'm...not the biggest fan of Rainbow Rowell books?
This is the third book that i have read by her and yet none of them have received more than a generous three stars...i don't get it?!
On paper her books are everything i love, especially Carry On! But yet again i found myself reading it only to make me finish it faster so i could move on to something else.
Book One dragged so much for me that i genuinely thought that i wouldn't finish the book. I just couldn't see there being any possible way of me enjoying the next 500+ pages.
Then Baz came along.
Now i loved Baz. Baz was the saving grace of this book for me.
He was interesting, funny, different, and very Malfoy like...He was great.
I loved the developing friendship with Simon and Baz. I loved the secret little crush. I loved the romance. If this whole book was from Baz's perspective i would have absolutely loved it.
Instead it was from Baz, Simon, Agatha, Penny, Lucy, and god knows who else's perspectives. It was just too much.
It's very hard to read this book and not compare it to Harry Potter. Or more accurately: not compare it to Harry Potter fanfiction. It was clear that in this story Simon was Harry, Baz was Draco, Penny was Hermione, The Mage was Dumbledore, The Humdrum was Voldemort....when will the vampire/magician AU Harry Potter end?!
Now i don't want this to be a "oh man i hate this book" post because, honestly, this is the best Rainbow Rowell book that i've read. I was far more interested in what happened in this story than in Fangirl, and definitely didn't feel the hatred i felt for Eleanor and Park.
Carry On definitely had moments where i couldn't put the book down, and it had moments (mainly from Baz) where i just felt so much love for a character. I just don't think, overall, her books are for me. And that's okay.
Honestly this book has taught me something very important: you don't have to love every book you read.
It's okay to just like a book. Or to finish a book and go "eh i didn't really care about that".
Books don't have to be either loved or hated, they can just be meh books. And that's totally fine!!
Meghan xxx
