Book Review:
Caraval
🎟🎟🎟🎟/5🎟
After my last read, a trilogy packed with war and fighting and heavy magic, this was a shift. It was a quiet slow burn. That’s not a bad thing.
I’m still not sure how much of what happened during the game was magic and how much was smoke and mirrors trickery and stage craft. But I guess that is a kind of magic too, just a different form.
Scarlett has been obsessed with Legend and Caraval pretty much her whole life. She was fed tales of the wonder and romance and magic of it by her grandma. So she wants to go.
She needs to go. Scarlett and her sister Tella live with their brutal father, the corrupt governor of island they live on. She is promised to a man she has never met outside letters he’s sent her, the wedding a week away. And now after years of writing to Legend she has her ticket in.
A chance at a magical wish and escape. But it turns out to be nothing she expected and so much more than she knew she wanted.
Choices and self-care and loving yourself are heavy themes and lessons here but in a way that isn’t over your head preachy.
Nothing and no one inside Caraval are who or what they seem. And it’s brilliant and dangerous and confusing.
I also really enjoyed the flow of and the poetic at times way Stephanie writes. It’s lovely and dreamy and full of interesting imagery.
(Finished July 11, 2021)
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