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Again, I will only strengthen the camp of unpopular opinions, I don't know, maybe I should freeze this circus topic, because the night circus didn't work either.

I don't want to take so much time, but I'm simply forced, I have to write how I feel.  I am very disappointed and angry because I have been scammed again.  I feel completely cheated, because it was said that this is a good book, that it is full of magic and wonderful plot... Yeah... maybe in my dreams.
Let's begin our journey again in the deepest pits of hell.

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First of all, I would like to start with the most important: it is an unspoken rule, but it is necessary to be able to place an action in space and time, but this did not happen here.  We just got a date and histrionics about the conquering empires and that's about it.  That's all you have to accept, that's all you have to love.

The main character Scarlett - she has a very unique name - has been living with her younger sister under the tyrannical hand of their father since their mother disappeared without a trace and still believes in miracles, that everything will be better if she gets married. Your helper will not be a man is not the solution to your problems, especially not if he is the cause of them in the first place. Anyway, let's let her live in the pink fog, because if nothing else, at least she understands this. Since she was very young, she has been begging the Caraval grandmaster in a letter to go with Donatella - one of the four turtles - who happens to be her sister - to the far-famed game, the prize of which this year is a wish.  So, after receiving the special invitations, they set off with the help of a sailor, and Scarlett practically skips her wedding, although not voluntarily, but she still believes that she will make it home and that her fiance will love her.

In caraval, it is repeatedly emphasized that this is just a game and not reality, but this is not for everyone - by this I mean the main character.

Scarlett is a  very  weak character in terms of her personality.  Unlucky is so stupid that I already feel sorry for her.  She is able to pay with the power of life FOR A CLOTHES. Also, when there is a chance to find out the location of her sister or if she is well SHE PREFERS TO ASK ABOUT HER FUTURE HUSBAND.  I almost threw myself out the window.  When they ask her riddles, her little brain regularly turns off and she wouldn't even notice the answer if they poked his eyes out.  She flees from a man who abused her, another man waits for her at the altar and she flees into the arms of a man who kidnapped her. This sentence does not make much sense, but it faithfully reflects Scarlett.  Her love affair with Julian is completely out of thin air, it has no beginning, no end, and it is exhausted to the extent that Julian CANNOT call her by her name, despite Scarlett telling him to end it.  I could have seriously scraped the wall at this point.  I really thought about whether I should close the book here or maybe it will be better later and only the beginning/middle is so bad.

I know now that I should have chosen the first option.

The ending, like love, is the result of completely random and stupid turns.  After Scarlett finds her sister, who is not happy for her NO WAY, it turns out that she had a very good time while Scarlett was suffering, she even had a boyfriend.  (I didn't mention it, but anyway Donatella consumes men in large quantities.) And at the end, because her sister is unable to understand her, she jumps from the tower, but no body is found, she simply disappears like camphor.

The plot was SO DAMN BORING, the characters had no personality and the world building was painfully lame.

The only interesting character was Legend - or Dante - Caraval's grandmaster, who kept an eye on everything and everyone during the game.  He's not the kind of arch-villain who became who he was because he wasn't understood or because love did that to him, but because he wanted power, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got a curse.  I would love to read more about him, but I won't expose myself to another Caraval book, because my time will hurt.