I feel like a Teenager again!

I am not a Teenie, but this book through me back to my teenage years. It's not about teenaged, though I guess the age of the characters does qualify them as such. It's about magic, and dreams and being brave and running head-first into a family secret that was not meant for them to unravel. But it's funny, charming and brought a wide smile to my face.

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Spannend bis zu letzt

Die Gedichte ist spannend aufgebaut. Zum Ende hin passiert sehr viel, aktives zuhören war für mich am Schluss wichtig um den Faden nicht zu verlieren.
Einige Audio Sequenzen sind nicht gut eingebunden bzw. der Schnitt erscheint mir zu Grob/Sprunghaft. Bin dennoch auf die Fortsetzung gespannt.

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Escape Reality with Caraval

I loved the world of Caraval and every detail Garber put in it. The book gave of Alice in Wonderland vibes. I also liked that the topic abuse was touched, although I would not have associated real life problems with a fantasy genre but rather with new adult. So that was interesting. I loved the riddles and the deceit in the game. However, I feel like the father character was somewhat superficial. I did not really get the feeling of how it is to be beaten by your father and how their childhood felt because of that. Moreover, in the end there were long parts of simply explaining over dialogue. I think that could have been done better.

The speaker did an amazing job with all the characters and all the emotions they felt. She is the perfect pick for this novel. 😊 It kind of felt like a children's book, but darker and very magical. 👍

Over all I would totally recommend the book. It is beautifully written and thrilling, but it is not like a drug. More like a nice read.

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Tolles Romantasy Hörbuch

Spannende Geschichte mit vielen Plot-Twists und vielen kreativen Ideen. Einen Stern Abzug gibt's für die fehlende Charakterentwicklung der FMC

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Caraval - the worst book I have read in decades

A dreadful, dreadful, boring, tedious book! Normally I would not have wasted my time listening to this but it was just so bad, so clichéd and just generally so terrible that I just had to keep on going, driven by a morbid sense of fascination. Could this get any worse? It did!
The characters were one-dimensional and mostly irritating to the point that if they died, I was quite relieved that they were out of the way. Most had ridiculous names that should have given me a clue as to what lay ahead (Scarlett, Donnatella, Paloma..I ask you!). The writing style is hampered by the ridiculously flowery and often simply laughable descriptions of the forgettable locations and side characters that crop up. Purple prose at its most despicable.
Oh yes...the author apparently does not know that when a woman is pregnant, it's not her stomach that is swollen, so she should buff up a bit on her biology.
Probably I am not really in the target group for this book (I imagine that romantically charged teenage girls with a relatively low exposure to fantasy literature would probably appreciate this more than I did) so you could accuse me of being biased, but teenage literature was worlds better (many worlds) when I was young.
There are two more books in this series, but I'll pass on them, I think.
Finally, my feelings go to Rebecca Soler, who did her best to inject some life and excitement in this work but it was a case of DOA, so her failure was not entirely surprising.

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