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Caraval

Stephanie Garber

3.88 AVERAGE

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

[2.5] for a world that was supposed to be magical, it felt underwhelming; character, worlbuilding and plot wise (it was also quite predictable)

however all that being said, julian was such a good character idc if i'm biased
adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really liked the storyline - it made a really good fantasy setting. However, I do feel like the ending was a bit too rushed - I had to reread parts of it to fully wrap my head around it. Overall a pretty good book, and although I didn’t really like Tella that much in this book I hope I find out more about her in the next one.
adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

main character was sooooo annoying to me and the love interest storyline also weirded me out and prob would’ve given this one star and DNF’ed but i did enjoy the world that was built around caraval
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No