Tink's Book Reviews

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. It's been a year since the last Caraval turned Tella's life upside-down and she should've forgotten what happened the last time she played.   But Legend is back and that only means one thing. He needs all his players back for a second game, including Tella and her sister Scarlett.  Though things don't seem as simple as they were in the past game, for a start it's much more dangerous.   Tella must win the game this time, she must find Legend's true name as well as her mother, who left her as a child and went missing ever since....

Once a year the infamous Master Legend hosts Caraval - open only to those who have been invited.  This year the week long game is on Legend's glittering Isla de los Soenos, where the winding streets are an elaborate snow-covered maze and the people are never who they seem to be.  At midnight on the first day, the show beings and the visitors become players. Each of them vying for the coveted prize: a single wish.  Scarlett has only one wish in life, to finally be able to visit the legendary Caraval with her younger sister Donatella. So when Tella suddenly goes missing Scarlett knows there's only one place and once place only where she will have fled to.  Caraval is the greatest mystery this side of Trisda, where anything goes and anything can happen. If you win all your dreams will come true with just one wish from Legend, the grand carnival master - the man who everyone knows but has never been seen.  Though Scarlett can't ...