Tag: stephanie garber
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The Finale I Couldn’t Finish
They say every story has a beginning, a middle, an almost-ending and the true ending. It sucks that I couldn’t even get through the middle to see how this magical world’s almost-ending or true ending panned out. Stephanie Garber’s Finale comes with a lot of threads to tie together and balls to juggle but unfortunately…
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Legendary – This Book Makes Me Mad
So I finished my reread of Stephanie Garber’s Legendary, the second book in the Caraval trilogy, and I genuinely feel angry. Here is why. Warning: spoilers ahead, read at your own risk. The quality of the writing is so much better in Legendary than it was in Caraval. There was something lacking about Scarlett’s perspective,…
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Is Caraval Worth The Hype?
So I read Caraval by Stephanie Garber several summers ago, during the years where I was absorbing as much YA reading as possible without letting myself have my own thoughts on things such as personal preference, character appeal, how decent the storytelling and landscape development were, etc. As you can imagine, once that rose-tinted lens…