1.5 
 To be hyped up so much. It was... totally meh. 
 Caraval's world did not feel fully fleshed at all, to say it like this, the world of the game, show, whatever, "Caraval" was better developed than anything else in this book. It was strange and weird in a good way, although the references to all kinds of colours was an overkill. Caraval could have been good in a magic realism-sense, something akin to 
 The Night Circus 
 by Erin Morgenstern. But instead of exploiting that aspect of the story fully, we're instead stuck with an idiot of a main character, Scarlett. I mostly wanted to strangle Scarlett throughout the book, there's no boundaries to her fretting (or my annoyance). I felt that the book could have gone well (read: perhaps 2.5 stars), until. The romance aspect kicks in. To say the least, it is it's downfall.