Book Review: Legendary (Caraval #2)
June 6, 2020
Legendary is the second book in Stephanie Garber’s Caraval‘s series.
I got into this series because it came highly recommended by my thirteen year old daughter. She couldn’t wait to read the third book, which was about to come out at the time, and it got me interested in it since some of her previous recommendations (like The Selection and The Lunar Chronicles) were so good.
In the first book, Caraval, we are introduced to this world that feels like a mix between a fantasy world and the real world of all. I imagine the times of pirates and girls in corsets as I read this story. That is one of the things I enjoy the most about these books, the setting.
The stories circle around the Dragna sisters, Scarlet and Donatella (Tella) as they try to find out the truth about their family. To do that, they play a game called Caraval. The game in itself is a little hard to follow. They get clues in the form on poems in cards and then they basically just wander through a city at night just… talking to people, I guess. The clues are hard for the reader to understand, so you just go along with how they find the next one.
Caraval is full of magic, too. It’s a strange magic, where you don’t really know how something magical came to be or how. For example, people can come back from death or the stars align and move to show messages. There are magical dresses that change on their own to suit your needs or you get a memory taken away by a book.
It’s pretty interesting, I think, although a bit confusing at times.
Regardless, the story is something new and fresh and I enjoy it. It has the love triangles and the heroine trying to figure out what’s going on most of the time, which isn’t new, but the ambiance of the world makes it worthwhile.
I don’t think this series is for everyone, but if you want to read something filled with adventure and magic, this may be for you.
Cheers!
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