Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

As always, I've tried to avoid spoilers for this book itself, but this may include spoilers for book one, Carry On.

American Magickal Culture

"It could be anything!" I say. A wraith, a leach, a ghoul. Something specifically American: a gun demon, a prairie mog, one of those sirens who live in wells. Can coyotes drive cars? I know they can play poker, the Mage told me. p127

American Culture

And why hasn't something shot us yet? Even toddlers in America have access to guns. p143

Boyfriend Comments

I'll be damned and drawn and fucking quartered before I watch some devil-eyes goat feel up my boyfriend right in front of me. p142

Crowley, if this is what it takes to keep Simon in my arms-- gunshots and Quiet Zones and high-speed chases-- I'm here for it. I'll swear to it. I've found my vocation. p148

Other

Baz is truly frightening when he's not pretending he's not a vampire. p146

"The Next Blood," he says, "are physically like us, but they're culturally something very different. They're a group of wealthy men and women, mostly men, who discovered our way of life.... Well"--- he can't help but roll his eyes-- "they act like they discovered it. And then decided to acquire it. They sought out our brethren, demanding to be Turned." p276

"Agatha, this is bigger than one person's freedom. It's like eminent domain." p267

How have I lived through so many happy endings without ever learning how to save the day? p316

All that skin and fire snaking through the desert. I imagined how it would feel to shine like that. To be a small, spangled part of something so magickal, without anyone using any magic at all. p319

He's got me by the waist. His wings are pumping hard. I hold on to dear life. p337 (emphasis mine)
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Penelope sighs, leaning over the seat, and Baz holds his wand to her mouth. "Kiss it better!"

"Basil, that's a family spell!" p340   (Cue the tears!)
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LOL

I swing my head towards him. "What eats you?"

He raises an eyebrow, giving me a taste of my own medicine. "Existential despair." p282
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"More like you were listening," Simon says. "While he told you a bunch of fairy tales about vampires saving princesses and slaying dragons."

"For the last time, Simon Snow, only a depraved savage would slay a dragon!"

"I wasn't trying to kill it!" p291
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Lamb scoffs. "One mage murdered every vampire in Lancashire."

"Beatrix Potter," Bunce supplies. p302
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It's like getting ambushed by a heavily armed GQ spread. p324



****I think it's fun how in this book, Fiona doesn't actually make an appearance. It makes me think of when they bring back a show after it's been cancelled and that one actor won't/ can't come back to the show, so they just talk about them every so often and have a reason why they were gone. I quite enjoyed this.

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