Like candied butterfly wings caught in sugared spiderwebs, and drunken peaches coated in luck.” * It’s a fact too that she simply cannot get enough of stars: stars that are at various times broken, bleeding, crying, watching, planning, and (always and endlessly) falling. Here’s a quote from Legendary: “The air tasted like wonder. Okay, I made that one up but all those I have listed here are not unlike what Garber has written on just about every page of both novels in this series. The sky smelled like amber and falling stars, for example. The Caraval story is not lacking in charm, but Garber has this writing tic that drives me spare. Why, you ask? Because today I have a hangover from bingeing on buckets of broken stars mismatched lovers that cling to hope like lost kites over frozen lakes silver-blue sadnesses that feel like skyfall-peonies rotting in an autumn wind amber skies smelling of lost dreams and broken promises betrayal that wreaks of old love letters inked on torn parchment, trembling in the hands of an ancient and weeping monk whispered dreams shared hurriedly in stinking back alleys and other strings of syrupy similes and meaningless melodious metaphors. Oh my stars! Someone needs to give Garber’s editor a sound thrashing. I think I have avoided plot spoilers though and stuck to what I liked and disliked about the books. Note: I read both Caraval and Legendary over the past couple of nights, so this review discusses both novels in a general way. Book Review: Caraval and Legendary, by Stephanie Garber td Whittle Posted on June 10, 2018
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