3 Stars 
 I liked this book. Liked it, but didn't love it as much as I loved Eleanor and Park. 
 It was nothing in particular that stopped me from taking it to next level love (fangirl love) - I just didn't connect to the story as much on a personal level. 
 This Rainbow Rowell novel is about Cath - an 18 year old twin starting her first year of college. Cath is an intense introvert. She has serious anxiety and spends most of her time writing fan fiction and generally spending time in the online fandom of the Simon Snow books. College for her is not ideal, it involves a new roommate and generally having to socialize with people. 
 This is a character driven novel. We get to see Cath's development as she goes through her Freshman year, makes friends - falls in love. Cath is an incredibly well developed character. She is layered and real. I just didn't like her that much! I don't know what it was - we just didn't connect. I thought that the secondary characters were reasonably well done. Eli, Wren and Cath and Wren's dad were the next circle of characters and they were all good secondary characters. I kept reading the book because of Eli - I liked that there was just a normal, smart, nice guy as the leading man. I think that is Rowell's specialty - making ordinary love stories seem extraordinary. I liked that there was the element of living with someone with a mental illness and also the effect of the girl's mother leaving them. I lost my dad at a young age - and I think that how Rowell portrayed the loss was very genuine. 
 Throughout the book there are little snippets of Cath's fan fiction and the "original" Simon Snow books. At the start I liked this - you could see how the writing and the original book kind of shadowed what was happening in Cath's life. But towards the end I just found myself skimming over it all. 
 Overall, I find that I don't have much to say about this book. The writing is great, the story moves along at a nice pace, the characters are interesting, and the romance is lovely and butterfly-worthy. I can't quite place my finger on the reason I disliked Cath - but I'm sure it will come to me at some random time! I was hesitatant to read this book because the blurb just didn't pull me in. In the end I could have taken or left it. I got it on special so it's not a waste, but I don't think I'll be reading Carry On.