04 April 2025

March Wrap-Up and April Goals

March Reads
 

March Wrap-Up

  • Finished: 5
  • Started/continued but not finished: 3
  • Total pages read: 2,320
  • Average rating: 4.1

I finished five books in March, and two of them were novels. I read the final two books in Stephanie Garber’s Caraval trilogy, Legendary (4/5 stars) and Finale (also 4/5 stars). They were nice reads, but I admit I didn’t love them as much as I had expected. They didn’t have the same magical effect on me as they seem to have had on other people. You can click the links to read longer reviews.

02 April 2025

Book Review: Finale by Stephanie Garber

Finale by Stephanie Garber

Book title: Finale
Author: Stephanie Garber
Genre: Young Adult fantasy
Published: May 7, 2019
478 pages
My rating: 4/5

“Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, when the situation feels hopeless, but that is where hope is needed the most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending.”

Two months after the Fates were released from a magical deck of cards, the lives of everyone in Valenda are at stake. Scarlett and Donatella Dragna must destroy the leader of the Fates, the Fallen Star, with the help of friends—and potential foes. In the process, they uncover unexpected truths that threaten to upend their lives.

Finale is the third and final book in Stephanie Garbers young adult fantasy series Caraval. Unlike Caraval, which was told from Scarlett’s point-of-view, and Legendary, which was told from Tella’s, Finale is told form a dual point-of-view. We get both Scarlett’s and Tella’s reactions and viewpoints in the same book, although Tella’s point of view is more prominent. In this book, the stakes are higher: the Fates are threatening the lives of everyone, and the sisters have to come up with a way to destroy them.

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