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Average rating3.7
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win.
After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend’s true name.
The only chance of uncovering Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice, but now the game is asking for more. If Tella can’t fulfill her bargain and deliver Legend’s name, she’ll lose everything she cares about—maybe even her life. But if she wins, Legend and Caraval will be destroyed forever...
Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . the games have only just begun.
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Now I dislike Tella more than I disliked Scarlett in the first one 😂
Things I didn't like about this book:
1) The book is basically like this: “Tella, don't do it! It's a bad idea!” And then Tella decides it's a good idea to go ahead and do it anyway. I swear these two sisters are horrible at decision making. Like I get creating a challenge for the main character, but does it always have to be a challenge that came about because the main character was stupid?
2) I didn't believe for a second that Tella was interested in Jacks, and not just because I had already read Once Upon a Broken Heart and had the next two books in the Caraval series spoiled for myself. Jacks was cold, insensitive and bordering on abusive at times. You expect me to believe a girl who's endured abuse from her father would see this man and go “... maybe I like him?” ??? To quote Raven; I could not believe it.
3) Again with the overly descriptive writing. Because I already knew where the plot was going thanks to two sentences in Once Upon a Broken Heart spoiling it for me I had no patience sitting through paragraphs, sometimes even half a page of descriptions of a room or a characters outfit. Please get to the point