I really love Rainbow Rowell’s concept with the second & third books – what happens when the Chosen One isn’t really the chosen one & after he saves the day – but I still struggle sometimes to understand Simon’s relationships with characters like Baz and Penelope. Listen, I LOVE, love Baz like the rest of us do, but I am here with a quite unpopular opinion: I’m not the biggest fan of Simon. I actually sometimes don’t mind ‘fluff’, especially when it comes to series I really enjoy and characters I never want to let go of, but there was so, so much fluff between all the ‘couples’ in this. I enjoyed Any Way the Wind Blows but I 100% am here to admit that I thought this book was way too long. Wayward Sonfell into unexpected middle book syndrome, since most readers thought that it would be the finale of the series (I did like Wayward Son better during my reread this summer, knowing that the book wasn’t the end), so I was really looking forward to seeing how Rainbow wrapped up Simon Snow & company’s story with Any Way the Wind Blows.

I’ll read anything that Rainbow Rowell writes but I’ve been really hoping she’ll come out more contemporary books soon. Although I did really like Carry On when it first came out in 2015, I’ve felt kind’ve mixed on the Simon Snow trilogy. Some of you may know that I am a huge Rainbow Rowell fangirl, but more specifically for her contemporary books like Fangirl and Attachments (and I of course have my eye on the new paperback/Christmas-y edition of Landline). It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. 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. Summary (from the publisher): In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong.

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