It’s almost as if stripping the magic from Simon created someone completely different. Simon is always cranky, and Baz doesn’t know where they stand as a couple. A complete one-eighty from how we left it, Baz and Simon’s relationship is beginning to suffer.

He sits on the couch day after day, needing Penelope to spell his wings and tail if he ever wants to wander the outside world. Baz and Penelope are both attending university, and Simon is doing relatively nothing. Simon and Penelope share an apartment in London. Wayward Son fast forwards a year into the future. What readers will learn is that there are always new battles to fight, and not everything ends in happily ever after.Īt the end of Carry On, Simon sacrifices his magic in order to defeat the Insidious Humdrum-who turns out to be sort of a version of himself? I know kind of weird-Baz graduates from Watford at the top of his class, all thanks to Penelope who decided not to return for her last term at Watford and Agatha runs off to California, attempting to get as far away from magic as she possibly can. Rowell’s Wayward Son tells the story of what happens to the hero after the battle has been fought and the war has been won. Last year, fans of the novel were left with a void in their hearts after finishing Carry On, but now that void, which can only be filled by more Simon and Baz interactions, can be filled… but not in the way audiences may expect.

Carry On received stellar reviews from audiences some even claimed it to be comparable to the Harry Potter series. A year after Rainbow Rowell released her much beloved novel Carry On, the first book in the Simon Snow series, the second in the series, Wayward Son, has been published.

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