The Insidious Humdrum

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"I had trouble maintaining any of the information that those characters were sort of giving me because it's like a disembodied voice of a woman named Lucy a few times before you even find out who Lucy is" "The humdrum creates pockets of no magic so the magic in this book it's not quite the force but it is like magic comes from the universe around you," she says. 'It's almost like it's sucking the magic out of you and these spots are getting worse they're getting bigger'

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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