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Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, here is a Mexican soap opera mixed in with a Bollywood soap opera, both from the 90’s, I give you ‘Caraval’. 😒
▪️BASICS:
Official title: Caraval
My title: Idiots at Caraval
Author: Stephanie Garber
Fav character: Castilo Maldito
Type: Book – Series
Will you read the others: NO, NO, NO
2.8/5
▪️INTRO:
It was a book with a story. 😒 Featuring characters I disliked.
The hot men were only good thing.
▪️REVIEW:
🚨🚨 Some SPOILERS
Read as a bumbling idiot, who should have been put out of her misery long before getting to Caraval, is immersed in a world of deceptions, lies, trials, death and more.
Read as she ignores EVERYTHING she is told, her past experiences and advice given, to supposedly be “bold”, although it just makes her stupid.
🤦🏻♀️ Sigh, so this will be one of those reviews where I comment as I read.
Caraval – Scarlett and her thinking challenges. 😒 The thinking challenges of Scarlett.
88/463 – I am already fed up with Scarlett and am openly disappointed that she didn’t drown before arriving. 🤦🏻♀️ Also, HOW DIFFICULT is it to use common sense Scarlett and not waste time?! HOW DIFFICULT IS IT?!
133/463 – The idiocy continues… I need someone to put Scarlett out of her existential misery. Here is a prime example of someone who is warned and forewarned and yet IGNORESSS ALL of it to just be an ass. 🤦🏻♀️
138/463 – The perfect example of someone who believes they are FAR smarter than they ever could be. 🤦🏻♀️ Unless it turns out that her stupidity was all part of the game, I could really grow to hate Scarlett.
148/463 – What things? You arrived with nothing, what things?!
167/463 – Making a conscious decision to read sans emotions
Eventually it ends, but I wanted to cut to the chase and highlight the main issue I have with these types of books (books similar to Ash Princess).
▪️CONCLUSION:
🌑When female characters are obviously stupid:
A) I have mentioned this before, but this may be as good a time as any to reiterate this observation. Why do women like to write about other women who are FAR less intellingent, FAR stupider than they are? 🤔 Men on the other hand seem to almost always write about men more intelligent and mor capable than they are.
Why is this a thing?!
B) I don’t like the idea of encouraging aging girls to be dumb. Making them feel that since usually turn out good for characters in books, that things will also turn out well for them. 🤦🏻♀️ That isn’t how it works.
