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

The whole thing just seemed to hang together better in this one.

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Title: Legendary
Author: Stephanie Garber

Series: Caraval #2

Genre: YA, Fantasy

The Verdict:

I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a second book so much when I found the first book so… meh.

Don’t get me wrong — Caraval was ok.

It was an enjoyable enough read.

I did have some… issues… with it when I reviewed it a few years ago, but overall it was just ok.

Legendary? Is SO much better!

Maybe it’s because the majority of the problems from the first book were not present — the Queer coding, for example, is totally gone.

Julian and Dante are still a little too ambiguous, racially, but they are less ambiguous than they were in Caraval.

At least Garber uses the word Brown to describe their skin more often in this book, instead of relying as much on ‘tan’ or ‘olive’ ( — which I’ve been described as a lot, and I’m White.)