Review: Finale (Caraval #3) by Stephanie Garber
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Series: Caraval #3
Author: Stephanie Garber
Published May 9th 2019 by Hodder & Stoughton
Goodreads Synopsis
Welcome, welcome to Finale, the third and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series!
Welcome, welcome to Caraval...all games must come to an end.
It’s been two months since the last Caraval concluded, two months since the Fates have been freed from an enchanted deck of cards, two months since Tella has seen Legend, and two months since Legend claimed the empire’s throne as his own. Now, Legend is preparing for his official coronation and Tella is determined to stop it. She believes her own mother, who still remains in an enchanted sleep, is the rightful heir to the throne.
Meanwhile, Scarlett has started a game of her own. She’s challenged Julian and her former fiancé, Count Nicolas d’Arcy, to a competition where the winner will receive her hand in marriage. Finaly, Scarlett feels as if she is in complete control over her life and future. She is unaware that her mother’s past has put her in the greatest danger of all.
Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun―with lives, empires, and hearts all at stake. There are no spectators this time: only those who will win...and those who will lose everything.
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Review
Now the stakes are higher than ever before. In order to free Tella from the Deck of Destiny, Legend had to break the power of the cards, and ended up freeing all the Fates from their prison. In order to help their newly rediscovered mother, Scarlett and Tella must work together to both stop the fates, and the coronation of Legend, and even change the past, without wiping them from existence. The game is on, but there's more to lose than ever before.
Finale blew me away, and then some. There were so many loose ends and questions that needed to be answered from the previous books, but everything was tied up perfectly by the end of the book. I loved how the Dragna sisters had such important, though diverging, roles to play this time around, and really came into their own power - some more than others. Honestly, I couldn't imagine how much could happen in a book of this size, but every page was filled with action and intrigue, which kept the reader hooked until the very last page. And all of the new characters, particularly the Fates, were nuanced and different from each other. When had the wicked cruel Fates, who revelled in causing pain and terror, and then the ones who wanted to help bring down the wicked villain. All in all, an enjoyable ending to the series, and I'm definitely going to be reading Once Upon a Broken Heart soon, as Jacks' story is no where near over.
Dates Read:
December 6-9, 2021
Rating
4 Stars
December 6-9, 2021
Rating
4 Stars
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