A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win.
After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend’s true name.
The only chance of uncovering Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice, but now the game is asking for more. If Tella can’t fulfill her bargain and deliver Legend’s name, she’ll lose everything she cares about—maybe even her life. But if she wins, Legend and Caraval will be destroyed forever...
Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . the games have only just begun.
Legendary is a fantasy, fiction, young adult novel published in 2018, and written by author Stephanie Garber. It is the second installment of the Caraval Trilogy, and is set in a world full of magic and adventures. Caraval recounted Scarlett's journey into a game full of mystery. Legendary on the other hand, recounts her sister Tella's plunge into a very real but very magical race against time... and other myths. It's written almost entirely in the heroine's POV and has some romance woven into it.
Where to start, though, with this review? I had a love-hate relationship with the heroine from the start of the book. She was brave but sometimes stupid, in the sense that, well... horror movie heroine decides to wander alone in lonely places. What good ever comes from that? She was passionate, she was stubborn, she cared. The way she tries to protect herself from love is definitely something relatable, I mean you know yourself but who knows the other person entirely? Most of the book was predictable except, for the one thing I'm still dying to know: Legend or the Prince of Hearts? Goddamn but I want that prince! So yeah, there's a huge cliffhanger, and although I usually do not like those, I'm living for this one.
There's an ocean of information from the first book to this one, on the characters. You learn a lot from them. A character that still has me curious is Tella and Scarlett's mom; I cannot wait to read her full story. In this book, the reader can sort of understand the why of Tella's and Scarlett's different personality traits. A different side of Scarlett is also revealed in this book; she's way more secretive and seems more fragile than before, in a sense. With Legend, I feel like that character could have been developed... more. I don't know, I'm also sort of a sucker for the villains so that might be why I didn't find him as intriguing. He was predictable. The Prince of Hearts, though: perfection. So little is actually revealed about him, and yet one definitely feels a strong pull to discover more about him.
To be honest, when I first went in with this Trilogy, I did so with no expectations. I was excited because I love a pretty cover and it was recommended by a friend of my sister's that still has not disappointed me with her suggestions. (Thanks Lala!) But my usual reads are a bit more adult. These two, were totally worth it getting out of my comfort zone. And I will definitely be picking up Finale. This is the kind of fantasy/fiction book that makes you want to keep reading and submerge yourself in a particular author's world. I give it 4.4 inconspicuous stars!
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