#bunce

Quick sketch of this pair 😁 they're so hilarious and lovely together💖✨

It's something about the ominous, rhythmic hissing, that every time I see this:

I hear this:

BOGGIS. BUNCE. BEAN.

“Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place,” (Rowell).

I didn’t feel as though Wayward Son was as strong as Carry On, the first book in the Simon Snow trilogy. I think that this was in part because the pace wasn’t as good and in part because it seemed a little directionless for a while. There’s just this road trip to see an old friend and nothing else really going on until the group gets to Vegas and discovers more about America’s vampires. Then the novel really picks up and is action-packed. Not that there wasn’t action here or there before then, it just wasn’t as consistent and it didn’t seem to propel the plot forward as much as the action that took place toward the end of the novel.

With that being said, I appreciated how each of the characters was a clear, distinct being. With clear motivations and goals. I can’t say that I was a fan of the new characters Rowell introduced, but they were fairly well fleshed out, even in the case of tertiary characters, so I appreciated that. I was not a fan of how the novel left off on a cliffhanger though. I’m not a fan of cliffhangers because they keep me waiting. I’m glad the final book is out, so I don’t have to wait to continue Simon’s journey!

if you read Wayward Son the moment it got released, almost in one sitting, and missing snowbaz so much that only looking forward to another chapter 61

you were probably underwhelmed and not satisfied

because so was I, I did the same, I felt the same

go.back.

read.it.again.

Wayward Son is a you-need-to-read-for-second-time kind of book and you will find that it’s refreshing after the events of carry on, but equally filled with clever adventures. It’s empathetic, very real in terms of trauma survivor relationships and also has such, such tinder snowbaz moments.

trust me, I couldn’t be more wrong in my impressions the first time because I inhaled the book only to see what simon and baz were up to

don’t do that, read it again, experience all of it, and appreciate the world and the characters rainbow rowell so meticulously created, and so very much loves (that we all love)