The book is a satisfactory completion with plenty of explanations, tying up loose ends with gratifying conclusions. In comparison to its predecessor, Wayward Son, Any Way the Wind Blows is a dense novel standing at about 600 pages, and for a valid cause it’s the kind of book that can knock someone out if they’re hit upside the head by it. And Agatha Wellbelove had had enough of it all. Penelope would gladly assist, but she’s already managed to sneak an American Normal – a mortal American – into London and isn’t sure what to do with him. Meanwhile, Baz juggles two family issues and can’t find time to tell anybody about his vampire expertise. For Simon, this means determining whether or not he still wants to be a member of the World of Mages - and, if he doesn’t, he must figure out what the decision would mean for his relationship with Baz. Simon and Baz, as well as their friends Penelope and Agatha, determine how to proceed in life in Any Way the Wind Blows. In Wayward Son, they found out that what they thought they knew about themselves was incorrect. Simon Snow and his companions in Carry On learned that everything they thought they knew about the universe was incorrect. Now, in 2021, Rowell released the final installment to the series, which is titled Any Way the Wind Blows.

The title of the first book, Carry On, was picked straight out of its book of origination, Fangirl, and with its success after its release in 2015, she subsequently released Wayward Son in 2019.

From there, Rowell must have seen the desire her fans had of reading the character’s fanfictions to be able to come up with the idea of writing them herself and releasing them as a three-part series. In 2013, Rainbow Rowell released the book Fangirl, a book about a college student who writes fanfiction about her favorite characters – Simon Snow and Tyrannus Basilton “Baz” Grimm-Pitch – in her favorite book series.

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