Any Way the Wind Blows

[3.5 stars]

This book was sort of unnecessary. Almost all of the plot and story and focus on Simon was something that I felt just didn't belong in the same series as the first book. I skimmed a lot of this book because there was sooooo much that kind of sucked. Agatha was absolutely horrible to Niamh for most of this book (I do enjoy their farmcore sapphic romance at the end though), and I found a lot of stuff Penelope and Shepherd were doing kind of uninteresting. I was here for Simon and Baz, and it's just a shame that what I was given of them was a very looooong and boring story of relationship insecurity. The first book in this series, Carry On, is one of my favourite books ever, but Any Way the Wind Blows just doesn't hold up. Maybe in a different, non-Simon Snow, context, it would be a great book, but, with Carry On preceeding it, it's just not.