3.5/5 
 This was really entertaining, but there are still some things that I wanted out of this. Scarlett annoyed me sometimes because she was CONSTANTLY worrying. That's fine I guess, and I can see why you would in this situation, but it was really frustrating to read. Julian became much more interesting as the story went on. Legend was by far the most interesting character, and I really hope we learn more about him in the next one. This had a lot of comparisons to the Night Circus. This made me a little sceptical because that happens to be one of my all time favorite books. The two books both have really cool settings and a competition but really that is it. This did not scratch the magical level that the Night Circus achieved. I want to know about the world outside of Caraval and more about the characters which I feel like we will in book two. This was very plot driven, but I had fun reading this all in all :) This was still a pretty good debut and I cannot wait to see what Stephanie Garber has in store for the next book.