Rating: ★
Unfortunately the finale to the Caraval trilogy was less legendary and more “meh”. I was so gutted by how little I enjoyed this book considering how much I enjoyed the series to start with. The book starts off where the second finished, and Scarlett and Tella spend it trying to stop the Fates, but this book just fell completely flat for me.
I usually find Garber’s writing as exciting and fun as Caraval sounds, but this book was honesty a total bore, and where her plots are usually tightly written, I kept finding plot holes, such as characters knowing things that happened to others without being told, which really bugged me.
The characters in this trilogy also began to really grate on me in this book. I found supposed love triangle which Tella struggled with ridiculous (both choices were awful), and Scarlett has no real defining characteristic other than that she has a dress that reflects her mood. In my view, neither of the two were strong enough to carry the trilogy, and even together, they faltered.
Overall, this book totally bored me, and as a trilogy, this series did not feel very cohesive and each book seemed to go off on a tangent. I’m gutted at how little I enjoyed it after the first book, which I LOVED, but maybe I will just treat Caraval as a stand-alone 🥴
Ink Drops Books 