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Young Adult Mysterious & Atmospheric Fast-Paced

Caraval

Stephanie Garber

3.9 via Goodreads

Two sisters enter Caraval, a legendary magical performance where the audience participates -- and one sister becomes the prize.

Mood Mysterious & Atmospheric
Pacing Fast-Paced
Complexity Light & Accessible
Pages 448
Reading Time ~15–22 hrs

About This Book

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller! Welcome, welcome to Caraval—Stephanie Garber’s sweeping tale of the unbreakable bond between two sisters. It’s the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world... Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father.

Who This Is For

Best for readers who want to be immersed in a world: mood and setting as important as plot. The prose is accessible: you can read this quickly and it never asks too much of you. It moves quickly: once you're in, it's hard to stop. Plot-first readers may find the pace too slow and the ambiguity too deliberate.

Best Read When

Best read when you're in the mood for something atmospheric and mysterious, and a read that's fast and propulsive.

What It Explores

Caraval explores identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, love in its most complicated forms, survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people, and family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen.

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