![]() ![]() ![]() Rowell’s creation is less preoccupied with the trappings of wizard life than it is focused on the relationships of the characters. But there are also mobile phones, contemporary slang and pop-culture references, and gay romance. There is a great battle between good and evil. He has a talented, stalwart friend, a fascinatingly ambiguous foe, and a complicated, emotionally unavailable mentor. Simon, an orphaned magician whose power is so immense that he is mostly inept at wielding it, returns to Watford School of Magicks for his final year of education in the magical arts. ![]() Deftly self-contained so that readers need not have read Fangirl to enjoy this tale, it will nonetheless appeal to Harry Potter fans sophisticated enough to recognize the fundamental tropes at work. Rowell pulls on a central thread of Fangirl (2013)-Cath’s fanfic epic of Simon Snow, the Chosen One and Mage's heir-and uses it to weave a tapestry of realigned affections and alliances. ![]()
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