Possibly better for tweens

I'm a middle-aged woman, but I regularly enjoy audio books that are written for children and young adults. This time, however, I wasn't impressed. There are lots of mentions of incidents that happened in the years before this book, and there is an awful lot of tortured (and torturous) teen romance. The story itself seems to be told in between comments about past incidents and mooning over other students.

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Entertaining, satirical and Super gay <3

I loved it. The voicing was perfect. Characterization (changes for the women and other men and all) was on point.

And I wish that there was more of Baz and Simon to read.

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Loved it.

The poetry in the mundane everyday. Witty & powerful in her telling of a story about life & things that happen to be.

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Totally magical

I'd recommend this book to any Harry Potter fan or follower of Mike Carey's Unwritten series. Funny from start to finish, a really interesting take on the fictional physics of magic, the collective unconscious and the evolution of language. Some brilliant and obvious plot staples that hide in plain sight all the big twists and, cannot overstate by refreshing an LGBT+ fantasy novel. 10/10 will absolutely listen again.

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Pretty good

It took a bit of time to hook me in. The writing left something to be desired and the voices for Simon and Baz were sometimes hard to distinguish. But all in all it was a good listen.

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Listened to this book lots - objectivity's hard

I really really like 'Carry On' (all of Rainbow Rowell's books work well for me, but this is the perfect combination of plot, characters and romance - plus, it's gay, they're roommates, and Baz is a vampire). As a book, it's not perfect - which is why I've given it only 4 stars out of a possible 5 (but an overall score of 5/5 because I just love it).

That said, actually some of the things that I sort of like but I think people would quibble with in the text (like all the many many line breaks and broken sentences) are completely hidden in this version. And it's clear what Rowell is doing with her writing, in that it sounds completely natural read out.

The first time I listened to it, I thought the performance was only OK. I sort of wished that they'd cast two actors as Simon and Baz (I know there are other voices but these are the main two), and there are a few moments where big action is happening and the character voices are still quite flat, as though they're still bantering with each other. I do still think more could be done with these scenes from a direction point of view, but this is massively suppassed by the vast number of things that Euan Morton gets right (practically everything, all the voices are amazingly distinct - and the narration is as interesting as the dialogue, which is also delivered really well even though he's talking to himself). I could and have listened to him for hours.

I very much recommend getting this book - although I'd probably try Fangirl first.

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So good.

As much fun as reading the book. Really enjoyed it. Took a while to adjust to Simon's voice as it was gruffer than what I'd had in my head. But still excellent.

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I love this book

I absolutely love this book!!! The plot is exciting and we'll thought out, but my favourite thing was the characters and their relationships, especially Simon and Baz

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Really enjoyed it!

Loved it so well done. As a Harry Potter and Fangirl fan I was a little scared I would be disappointed but I was not at all . It was great and I really liked Simon and Baz.

Rainbow Rowell is an amazing story teller.

When's the next one coming out?

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old book in new cover.

the first 20 cap. is b@#$%&. slow ... nothing inporten .. i hope the book start after cap 20.. or elles i wont bee back to complet this review..