Caraval (Caraval, #1)

by Stephanie Garber

[chillywilly]

This was pretty good. There was one particular thing that I didn't really understand until I listened to a podcast that the author spoke about the book. She said the color emotions were a form of expressing her feelings that she couldn't put into words. Which come to find out is called synesthesia. I looked that up and there are like 50 different versions. The one thing I did have a hard time with were some of her descriptions. I would be thinking of one thing and then the next paragraph I would feel confused because I would think that I was in a totally different area but really the characters were still in the same spot. Overall I liked the idea behind the book and the world she was creating. I do feel there could have been more as she did like to have the character repeat her love of her sister quite often and those spaces could have been filled with more descriptions of them or the area and more background on the characters.