RR: See above on this making you buckets of money. It always comes out sounding like.y'know.an American doing fan fiction of British English. MS: But Americans just don't write British English well. Would you be willing to set your fan fiction in the States? MS: Last I checked, you're from Nebraska, not England. Would you be willing to do a search-and-replace on all the names and places? RR: What's-her-name did it with Fifty Shades. MS: Here's the unfortunate downside of fan fiction, sweetie: IT'S FAN FICTION. Look at how many people love Harry Potter! You're just being a hater because you don't like Harry Potter. MS: That might not mean as much as you think. RR: PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
#CARRY ON RAINBOW ROWELL AUDIOBOOK MEDIAFIRE SERIES#
RR: So can we please publish my seven-book series of Harry Potter fan fiction now? PLEEEEEEEEZE! I've been asking for like years. Imagine, if you will, the following phone call between Rainbow Rowell and her agent (who in this case is obviously a Mary Sue of me, so I'll call her MS) taking place prior to the publication of Fangirl: I would read those previous nonexistent books without a doubt.Ĥ.5 stars rounded up to 5. Wish there was more in this series to read. Some weird cross between Hagrid and Professor McGonagall. A story with decent mythology and amazing characters is all I need to stay invested, so it was pretty easy to get into this book.
but I liked her writing style and how genuine her characters were written. I have a HUGE list of books I wanted to read, so not sure when. I haven't read anything else by Rainbow Rowell, but I probably will after this. (See? The parentheses thing is freaking addicting). It actually made it easier to get into than say the first Harry Potter book (yes, blasphemy, I know, but the Harry Potter series still tops ALL books written by mere humans, so there). This doesn't feel like the first book I've read in the saga. That was awesome.Īnother neat factor-she summed up the previous seven years of Simon's adventures neatly, yet I feel like have a pretty good idea of what happened. The mythology behind the magic and the creatures was slowly revealed, and there was always more to learn. The murder investigation plot I guessed pretty quickly, before the end of book 1, so that was kind of cool to be right about. It got to the point where I was upset that they were figuring out the plot, because I wanted to keep spending time with these characters.
There are many twists and turns with them that keep you guessing. I think the characters were very realistic and a lot of fun. So if anything, that's more of a compliment to the book because if I didn't like the book and the characters, I wouldn't have cared if I had to stop reading it. This only happened maybe 2-3 times and the soapiness never did ramp up. There were times when it was getting a bit soapy, and I almost thought that if the soapiness ramped up, I'd have to stop, which made me a little frustrated because I was really enjoying the book.
Story: Overall it was a pretty good read. I loved her use of parentheses, (Especially the myriad of them.) (Seriously, it was awesome.) (I'm not kidding, it added a special snarkiness to it). And first person truly suited this novel. Goes to show how well Rowell differentiates her characters' internal voices. First person, multiple narrators always confuses me, but much less so with this novel than others I've read. Observations: I was surprised at how well I kept track of the changing narrators. I think if you enjoy Harry Potter and a good young adult story, you won't be disappointed.