A review by karnivorous
Caraval by Stephanie Garber

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Love the premise and the story, setting, idea. The pace and dialogue was good, I wanted more of the carnival feel for caraval, it felt more like the shenanigans at a music festival. Tella is kind of unbearable, and Scar has a lot of repeatitive thoughts. <Spoiler> You know the community epsiode where they use props to fake shot people and its all a who pranked who? yeah that was the last 15% of the book but ypur questioning who is who and who died and who killed who, but its all a part of the game.
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