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A review by zaiphon
Legendary by Stephanie Garber
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
This book could have been a bit shorter. Some of the problems I had with this one are similar to when I read Caraval. I'm thinking that this writing is just not for me.
There were a lot of predicatable twists that made the suspense fall flat. I felt Scarlett and Julian were unrecongizable, which frustrated me. I was afraid of that after reading Caraval and realized this book was switching POVs. Based on a pattern, I am guessing the reason they feel like a foreign version of theirselves from in Caraval is to prepare for twists in Finale. It just made me detach myself from that part of the story. I felt like multiple times there would be back to back chapters that felt repetitive. Much like Caraval, I experienced that whiplash of twists at the last 50-60 pages.
I definitely think this would hit for a specific kind of readers, but nothing I would re-read for sure.
Am I going to read Finale? Yes, because now I am committed and just need to read the last one and see it through to the end. I'm doing it for Dante and Jacks.
There were a lot of predicatable twists that made the suspense fall flat. I felt Scarlett and Julian were unrecongizable, which frustrated me. I was afraid of that after reading Caraval and realized this book was switching POVs. Based on a pattern, I am guessing the reason they feel like a foreign version of theirselves from in Caraval is to prepare for twists in Finale. It just made me detach myself from that part of the story. I felt like multiple times there would be back to back chapters that felt repetitive. Much like Caraval, I experienced that whiplash of twists at the last 50-60 pages.
I definitely think this would hit for a specific kind of readers, but nothing I would re-read for sure.
Am I going to read Finale? Yes, because now I am committed and just need to read the last one and see it through to the end. I'm doing it for Dante and Jacks.