But here they don't, so the first couple chapters are Infodumps dedicated to setting the stage. In real fanfic, you can expect readers to know the premise of the story, setting, background, characters, and so on.This means than some things have to be treated differently than they would in real fanfic. Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The premise and the style of the book are that of fanfic, but unlike with real fanfic, readers don't come to the story already having read the Simon Snow books, since they don't actually exist.For example, multiple characters say how stupid the name 'the Insidious Humdrum' is, and Agatha (who's implied to be something of a Satellite Love Interest in the original) rejects her role in the story. What makes Carry On interesting is that it is presented as fanfic of a series that doesn't exist-but it still plays off the tropes of that series (and sometimes disparages on them!). While the characters might fit their expy counterparts in their initial roles-Simon is Harry, Baz is Draco, Penny is both Ron and Hermione, the Mage is Dumbledore-their personalities are rather different, and by the end their roles have changed substantially. But while in framework they parallel, that breaks down the further you go. The Simon Snow series is an expy of the Harry Potter series, with a parentless Chosen One wizard who attends a British Wizarding School. note For more explanation, see here And as Cath told us, nigh all Simon Snow fanfic is Simon/Baz Slash Fic. It's another 'fanfiction' rendition of the eighth Simon Snow book, written in the way that Rainbow Rowell would have penned such a tale. Leslie's eighth Simon Snow book, and it's not exactly Cath's Carry On, Simon. Carry On is a Young Adult novel by Rainbow Rowell, a companion to her novel Fangirl.

Carry on rowell