Wayward Son
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4,5 • 11 avaliações
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- R$ 57,90
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- R$ 57,90
Descrição da editora
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL
TO THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER CARRY ON
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.
With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter.
Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After the triumphant conclusion of Carry On, hero Simon Snow had earned some reward, or at least a little happiness. Instead, as this sequel opens, readers learn that Simon has sunk into a deep post-heroics funk. Roommates and fellow magicians Penny and Baz (well, mostly Penny) decide that Simon needs a radical change. A hastily and haphazardly arranged trip takes them from England to Chicago, where they rent a classic Mustang to head west Penny presciently senses that former classmate Agatha has found trouble in California. Trouble, in fact, abounds, and the magicians face off against a variety of foes, including Ren Faire-visiting vampires and a shotgun-wielding polecat, while finding that their idiom-based magic works differently in America. Rowell's dry wit is on full display as the first-person narrative moves between the characters, and plentiful awkward relationships including the fraught romance between Simon and Baz add tension. Though this second volume lacks the first's tighter plotline, it's a big-hearted look at early adulthood, exploration, and self-renewal that will certainly draw fans. Ages 14 up.
Avaliações de clientes
Simon and Baz’s story is magickal
Carry On was better. So much better, that I was tempted to give Wayward Son 4 stars.
But there is a reason Carry On is better. It is better because it is a complete story and it stands on its own. It didn’t necessarily need a sequel. Wayward Son, on the other hand is a second-book-in-a-trilogy without a doubt.
Yet, Rainbow Rowell is still amazing. Her characters and stories and settings are still beautiful. She still has that way with words that is truly magickal, beyond anything I could ask from my favorite writer. She doesn’t always give me what I want, but something else that I didn’t even know I needed.
That said, I do think this book could have been fuller. I don’t think it should have been longer, in terms of story, but I would have liked to see more of the in-betweens.
But nothing leaves me as devastated and hopeful as a Rainbow Rowell book.
Wayward Son wasn’t perfect, but it was amazing.
I can’t wait for book 3 and I hope it is as full of detail and fluff and adventure as this story deserves.
I just hope we don’t have to wait another four years hehehe...