Putting her talents to screenwriting now, she has come to be a highly gifted and extremely versatile writer with a flair for character and emotionally engaging narratives. Now in talks with the major film studio Dreamworks who are looking to produce a big-screen adaptation of her young adult novel ‘Eleanor and Park’ she’s come a long way since her early days working at the Omaha World-Herald. Having had a first-hand experience led education in the world of publishing, she clearly knows and understands how it best operates, along with what it is that her readers want and what creates quality engaging content. Following this stint at the publication, she then went on to work for an ad agency, all the while creating what was to be her very first debut novel. This allowed her to apply her craft, as well as create an established name for herself, as she honed and refined her craft, creating the unique voice that her many readers know and love her for to this very day. Starting out on the Omaha World-Herald where she was an ad copywriter and long-running columnist, she put her talents in writing and English to use straight away, gaining experience on the job between the years of 19. This was all going to help her in her adult career as a writer, a journey that would take her to becoming a fully fledged author of highly successful novels reaching audiences on a global scale. Creating deep and intricate inner worlds, she always had a strong and complex imagination, whilst simultaneously she was able to easily pinpoint what made people, and ultimately her characters, tick. She knows exactly what her readers are looking for, providing them with characters that are easy to relate to, whilst creating dialogue that’s both natural and flows easily off the page.īorn in 1973 on the 24th of February, Rainbow Rowell grew up in Nebraska, America, as she started to develop a life-long passion for both reading and literature, as she built upon her love for the written word. With novels such as ‘Fangirl’ she’s got a clear and articulate voice that’s adept and understanding of her audience, all of whom await each release with eager anticipation and excitement. I wanna hire Rainbow Rowell to write my life story.īecause her writing is like smooth butter! Literal butter dripping off the pages and into my bookish heart! She managed to project the characters’ voices while maintaining such an amazing grip on the pace of the story.Coming from Omaha, Nebraska in the United States, the American author Rainbow Rowell has been writing for a number of years now, having produced her long line of well received and unique brand of young adult and contemporary adult fiction. But Rowell wrote such compelling characters that I fell in love with all of them within seconds of meeting them! And the friendships! I just cannot express my love for them! Also, there were tears shed… There were many tears shed reading this book. Since the book starts when Simon and his friends are ending their studies at Watford, I started out questioning just how much I would be able to connect with the characters and the friendships and everything else.
I got invested in this book within the first five pages! Sounds like a whole lot of Harry Potter references, right? Well, I believe it ends up being even better than Harry Potter! Such a bold claim, but I think this is the more diverse, inclusive version and I love it! And the plot! You go in thinking it’s obviously good versus bad and BAM! Watch out for those plot twists! It’s gonna rock your world! 4. It reminded me of Harry Potter but it’s not! That was so much fun and made it so much easier to relate to them. You will never meet roommates more unique than Simon Snow and Baz Grimm-Pitch! I love how their relationship progressed throughout the book and that we got to read their own POVs. I am not exaggerating here! I do not know if this is Rowell’s usual style but oh my God, if this is what all her books are like, I will devour them all with zero sleep! The humour seamlessly goes along with the plot and I loved it! 2. There were multiple points at which I had to stop reading because I was laughing too hard and the tears streaming down my face made it impossible to figure out what the words on the page were. But then something even more important happens: Baz, his evil roommate, doesn’t show up for their last year at Watford and Simon is determined to figure out why. His spells backfire, he has the worst luck and honestly he doesn’t trust himself to get anything right. The thing is: Simon sucks at being the Chosen One. Simon is the Chosen One who is supposed to battle the evil Humdrum, who has been shaking up the magical world with his evil shenanigans. Carry On follows Simon Snow and his friends at Watford School of Magicks.