Genre: Magical Realism, Fantasy
Status: YA
Themes: Parental abuse, murder & magic
★★★★★
Roll up roll up to the wondrous, magical world of Caraval where you’ll question your very sanity. One sister races against time to search for her sister whose been captured by the mysterious Legend. On the run from their abusive father, Scarlett is thrown into the high stakes and high illusion game of Caraval with one goal: Find her sister before it’s too late oh and of course return back to her hometown to marry a man she has never met.
Garber has created such an intricate, magical (in overusing the word magical) world where there are endless possibilities and illusions. I found myself falling in love with this world and wanting to know more about the mysterious man behind the game. Legend is such a profoundly strange character, he sucks you in leaving you with nothing but questions and fascination. The strongest point of this book by far is the world building and the what-the-fuckness. You think you know a character and then you are deceived before your very eyes.
My new crush is Julian. Oh how I loved the character of Julian. I found Scarlet rather head strong and naive at times. It seemed that she constantly was drawn in by the illusions.
All in all, this was a 5 star experience and I’ve now brought myself Legendary. I’m ready to be sucked into this world and I hope I never leave
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