Review: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
This book made its rounds on Booktube quite a while ago and everyone was really excited for it when it first showed up. But as people read it, I seem to recall some pretty mixed reviews. People kept comparing it to “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern when it first came out, and since I didn’t really like that book, I decided this wasn’t for me. But I happened to come across it at my library, and since people had been saying that it wasn’t all that reminiscent of “The Night Circus” after all I decided to give it a go. This story follows Scarlett who lives with her sister and father on a small island. She is about to be married off to a count, whom she has never met, but she is happy about these prospects because it will allow her to escape her abusive father. Her sister, Donatella, however, has other plans. She snags invites to a game, Caraval, that is played every year, hosted by Legend, who appears to be a magician of some sort. When the sisters reach the place where t...