Simon Snow: A Boy Who Lived

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This book is set in Simon Snow's final year. It skips over the... So Simon is a boy who was orphaned, raised in Normy World? Now, what's he a boy who lived? Yeah, I guess. And there's a lot of like, oh, yeah. And then me and Penny fought a Camaro once and this stuff happened.

This novel about a wizarding school and its teen magicians feels like the finale of a series that you've heard about but haven't read. Which is...sort of the point? Born out of an in-universe work of fan fiction from a different Rowell novel, Carry On provides a great opportunity to dig into what helps a story inspired by another story succeed.

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