‘I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Enjoyed A Second Book So Much When I Found The First Book So Meh’

A bulletpoint, quick-fire, review of Legendary by Stephanie Garber

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Legendary by Stephanie Garber (Caraval #2)

• I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a second book so much when I found the first book so… meh.
• Scarlett, the main character from the first book, still provokes the urge to slap some sense into that girl.
• But, thank the Lord, Scarlett’s hardly in this book and isn’t a POV character.
• Tella is so much more sympathetic here — seeing things from where she stands makes her actions in the first book make a lot more sense.
• The whole thing just seemed to hang together better in this one.
• Maybe it’s because this book has the game of Caraval as almost background noise — it feels less like a plot device with some characters sprinkled in.
• This book is led by characters who happen to live in, and therefore have to deal with, this world where the impossible can happen.

For my full mini-review (don’t let the ‘mini’ fool ya — it’s got way more detail than this,) complete with Content Warnings, check this out:

Mini-Review! — Legendary (Caraval #2) by Stephanie Garber

Adapted from this review post on my blog, Dora Reads