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| Author | Rainbow Rowell |
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| Cover artist | Olga Grlic and Kevin Wada |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Urban fantasy |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Publication date | October 2015 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback), Audiobook |
| Pages | 528 |
| ISBN | 1250049555 |
| Followed by | Wayward Son |
Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is the third young adult novel written by Rainbow Rowell, published in 2015. The story follows the final year of magical schooling for Simon Snow, the "Chosen One" of the Magical world, prophesied to defeat the Insidious Humdrum, an evil force that has been wreaking havoc on the World of Mages for years. The novel is told through several narrative voices, including that of Simon, his roommate/enemy Baz, his best friend Penelope, and his ex-girlfriend Agatha.
The novel is a spinoff from Rowell's novel Fangirl. "Simon Snow" is the name of the fictional series of novels that the protagonist in Fangirl (Cath) is a die-hard fan of. Carry On, Simon is the name of the novel-within-a-novel-based-on-a-book-series that Cath is writing in Fangirl. However, Rowell has said that Carry On is a novel written by herself, and should not be seen as Cath’s fictional work “Carry On Simon”, which features in Fangirl.