It’s a powerful, politically minded allegory about sexual, ethnic and class identity – with a heady shot of teenage lust.” ― New York Times Book Review on Carry On “Rowell imbues her magic with awe and spectacle. Carefully plotted, the book is a classic page-turner right to the open ending which, o frabjous day, promises a sequel to the sequel! One can hardly wait.” ― Booklist (Starred Review) on Wayward Son “At last! A sequel to Carry On…every bit as fine as the first…overall excellence of a book in which every vista pleases and every character delights. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest.Ĭarry On was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings.

And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.Īny Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. Penelope would love to help, but she’s smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn’t sure what to do with him. In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.įor Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages ― and if he doesn’t, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.

N Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong.

Any way the wind blows review