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A review by bookishcarli
The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities by Rick Riordan
5.0
Finally here’s my review of The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities!! I was fortunate to have gotten an ARC from a local bookstore that gives away ARCs if you give a donation to cancer, and I was so excited to pick this up!! It didn’t disapoint, almost all of the stories are amazing!! Here’s a mini review/more like just a few words about some and a whole paragraph for Aru for each!!
Calamity Juice
I loved this one!! It was funny and cute and I especially loved Gabi!! She’s an amazing character!!
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Beware the Grove of True Love
I loved Aru’s story possibly as much as I loved Finn’s. Okay, I think I actually I loved it more. Don’t get me wrong, Rick’s story was amazing (as always) but it was my least favorite in the Riordanverse so far, but it still is amazing. The others just have the bar way too high lol for most stories to compete. But anyways, but to Aru. I love Aru’s perspective, she’s super funny and likable and just a really overall amazing character!! And I feel like she has a little bit for everyone: the aru shah series is more middle grade readers, I usually read more ya though but found her more likable than lots (if not most) ya characters!! Aru is an icon and I will stand by that fact. Another thing I want to say was done amazingly was that I never had to reread because because I didn’t understand anything. And I feel like even somebody who has not read the series could understand what was happening in it just fine. I may be a little biased because I have read the first two Aru Shah‘s, but I feel like with some of the stories it would be very hard to comprehend them without any previous background knowledge of the characters or the world or anything like that. I had a little bit of trouble with some of the ones that I had no knowledge of and hadn’t read any of the books, which is completely my fault, I should be reading these amazing books but I just wanted to say that Roshani Chokshi did an amazing job with making sure that even if you hadn’t read any of these books you could probably understand it fine. One last thing I want to add I also love Brynn and Mini they are also great characters and I love how it has an amazing main character and great side characters I mean it’s a perfect trifecta.
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Calamity Juice
I loved this one!! It was funny and cute and I especially loved Gabi!! She’s an amazing character!!
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Beware the Grove of True Love
I loved Aru’s story possibly as much as I loved Finn’s. Okay, I think I actually I loved it more. Don’t get me wrong, Rick’s story was amazing (as always) but it was my least favorite in the Riordanverse so far, but it still is amazing. The others just have the bar way too high lol for most stories to compete. But anyways, but to Aru. I love Aru’s perspective, she’s super funny and likable and just a really overall amazing character!! And I feel like she has a little bit for everyone: the aru shah series is more middle grade readers, I usually read more ya though but found her more likable than lots (if not most) ya characters!! Aru is an icon and I will stand by that fact. Another thing I want to say was done amazingly was that I never had to reread because because I didn’t understand anything. And I feel like even somebody who has not read the series could understand what was happening in it just fine. I may be a little biased because I have read the first two Aru Shah‘s, but I feel like with some of the stories it would be very hard to comprehend them without any previous background knowledge of the characters or the world or anything like that. I had a little bit of trouble with some of the ones that I had no knowledge of and hadn’t read any of the books, which is completely my fault, I should be reading these amazing books but I just wanted to say that Roshani Chokshi did an amazing job with making sure that even if you hadn’t read any of these books you could probably understand it fine. One last thing I want to add I also love Brynn and Mini they are also great characters and I love how it has an amazing main character and great side characters I mean it’s a perfect trifecta.
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