Finale (Caraval #3) by Stephanie Garber.

"It had potential to be good, introducing new characters/new powers/new situations but it all just fell flat in the end. A true disappointment to what could have been a very fun series."

2 STARS

Pros: It had the same fun, adventurous feeling of Caraval and Legendary but it wasn't enough to make this series great.

Cons: They went to all that trouble to save their Mother and her storyline is short and pointless/Donatella's feelings and back and forth with Legend got so obnoxiously overdone and old that it ruined the book for me.

Full Review:

***Spoiler Alert (sort of) ***

Scarlett and Donatella have risked life, limb and then some to escape the violent control of their Father and find their long lost Mother. And they have apparently succeeded by each winning the annual festival of Caraval in Caraval and Legendary.

And I feel that Finale could have been great. It had a lot of new characters with new powers to explore but instead Garber focused on Donatella and Legend and their back and forth about love and immortals and...to be honest, it was so overdone and so beaten into the ground that it ruined the series for me.

Garber gave herself a lot of opportunities for interesting exploration of a lot of new and unique characters but it was all so focused on Donatella/Legend/Jacks that everything else was overshadowed. The ending was flat, predictable and just let me feeling relieved that the book was finally over because if I had to read one more chapter about how Tella loved Legend and Legend loved her but he couldn't love her because then he wouldn't be immortal, I was going to scream.

I'm sad that this final book was such a disappointment because Garber really could have had something unique and fun with the Caraval series and especially all the different characters of the Fates but it's like they were just filler in the end. The first two books were fun, the first one especially but Finale was just flat.

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