Review- Any Way the Wind Blows- Book Review

(Simon Snow #3) by Rainbow Rowell 

Well, this book blew itself straight into a 2-star rating. Just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should and this book is just a good example of that. 

Any way the wind blows was a very unnecessary ending to the Carry On series, wrapping up the Simon and Baz story and well it was a huge steaming pile of a hot mess. I loved the first book and I didn’t expect it to have other books and maybe it should have just been like that. 

But I guess the decision was made to have two extra books and while that is not bad in itself, the two extra books just didn’t cut it. 

I wish I had just read book one and didn’t know about the existence of the other two books but alas I do and read them which brings me here to writing a poor review for a writer I absolutely adore and a book series that I had absolutely loved the first time I read I and had after reading it. 

Any Way The Wind Blows Book Blurb

In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.

In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.

For Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages — and if he doesn’t, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she’s smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn’t sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.

Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet.

This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest.

Carry On was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.

Any Way The Wind Blows Book Review

Reading this I couldn’t remember what happened in the first two books. So I got the audiobooks and decided to do a refresher. Halfway through book 1, I said, “ Well if I can’t remember the first two books there is a problem then.”  So I decided to just read the 3rd book and oh my days I couldn’t stop reading. And not because it was such a good book. No, it was because I just wanted it to be over. I didn’t want to wake up another day and pick up the book again so I raced through it and when I was done, I asked what was the plot. 

The whole book was quite confusing, there was no plot I mean even the whole new villain story felt very incomplete. At the end of the book, I was like oh that was it, the whole thing ???

I am all for representation in books and movies but I didn’t like the way Simon’s body is described in this book. Did it matter that he was fat like that plot was so unnecessary?

Now the elephant in the room, what was with Simon trying to eat Baz each time they made out? Simon has his own issues but I didn’t understand what was happening I cringed so badly each time I just had to skim through those parts.

The normal guy, yeah I was trying to remember his name Shepherd the plot twist about the marriage might have been the interesting part of the book but it was executed poorly also I didn’t get his and Penelope’s attraction or relationship but what do I know about that.

Also Agata and Namih not even sure that’s her name but yeah I hated every part of this relationship like the plot didn’t make sense. The part about the goats; TOTALLY UNNECESSARY.

The only part I liked about this book is the fact that this is the last book and I don’t have to go through this anymore. 

I will still be reading the Rainbow Rowell books because she is a brilliant writer but the other two books in this series just didn’t cut it and it hurts to write this because I am fairly easy to please but these books didn’t do it. 

Sadly, I have to do this but yeah whatever it is what it is. 

Another thing to consider is that it is YA and I read Carry On in Uni these past years I’ve been adulting and maybe I just relate better with adults and not kids. 

Yeah, this is what I don’t like, making excuses. I shouldn’t be making excuses for a book. But while I might have not liked it a lot of people did so that’s there.