Simon Snow is the Mage’s Heir, the most powerful magician of his generation, and he has no idea what he is doing. Raised in care homes with no knowledge of the magical world until he was eleven, Simon arrived at Watford School of Magicks as an outsider and never quite stopped feeling like one. His magic comes in overwhelming surges he cannot always control, and the one person who seems to understand him best is also the person he is supposed to hate: his aristocratic vampire roommate, Baz.
Over the course of three books, Simon goes from a student fighting the Insidious Humdrum (a magical dead zone that may be connected to Simon himself) to a young man trying to figure out who he is when the fight is over. The trilogy is as much a love story as it is a fantasy adventure, and Rowell writes Simon as someone whose greatest strength is his stubbornness and his willingness to care deeply, even when it costs him.
Reading Order
See the complete Simon Snow reading order for all books in the series.