Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)

by Rainbow Rowell

I never thought there was a path that would lead here, a fourth-floor flat with two bedrooms and a kettle and a grey-eyed vampire sitting on the couch, messing with his new phone.

Aw, Simon. I’m happy you got here. I wanted to give Simon and Baz a hopeful ending and to give readers closure -- but I also felt like I was leaving the characters in such a precarious place… Happy endings always make me so nervous. Especially in adventure stories. Especially when the characters are teenagers. Simon has been through so much. The events of this book turned his whole world upside down! He saved the day, and he got the boy – but he lost his place in the world. I immediately started writing Wayward Son in my head. I didn’t want to leave Simon like this, with such an unstable happy ending.