![]() ![]() Fangirl is interspersed with excerpts from both the “official” Simon Snow books of JK Rowling analogue Gemma T. It draws from Rowell’s 2013 novel Fangirl, about a college student named Cath who’s obsessed with writing fanfiction about a thinly disguised Harry Potter analogue, Simon Snow. 2015’s Carry On was an affectionate deconstruction of Harry Potter and its tropesĬarry On is ostensibly YA fantasy, but it’s a little more intertextual than you might gather from that description. Wayward Son, the Carry On sequel that comes out this week, is not quite so thrilling as its predecessor. ![]() It was like watching a pebble hurling itself against a boulder of enormous strength and solidity and then seeing the boulder move just a little bit.Ĭarry On is so intertextual that in many ways it reads like fanfiction, only fanfiction granted the weight and cultural force of original fiction. There was something incredibly thrilling about reading Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On when it came out in 2015. ![]()
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