Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise 

4.5/5 Stars

This is a perfect continuation to one of my favourite TV series.

The existing characters were all very vivid and the writing perfectly matched their individual style and personality and I couldn't help but hear their voices in my head whilst reading. The new characters introduced were each fun and unique and perfectly fitted into the world of Avatar. 

This bind up also includes many important themes with an emphasis on multiculturalism, the effects of friendship but also it explores the grey area of what's right and wrong. While still having frequent comedy moments. (mainly Toph and Sokka.) 

I would highly recommend reading the bind up edition, as it includes frequent side notes from the writers, discussing various scenes and changes that were made and their reasons behind it, which really added to the reading experience. 

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Carval

Carval - Stephanie Garber 

1.5/5 Stars

I picked this up because of the constant comparisons to the night circus, but ultimately I was left disappointed.

I found the writing to be very frustrating and the forced metaphors really just got annoying and didn't really make sense most of the time to me.

While I enjoyed some aspects of the plot, the characters were completely forgettable and had no personality or feeling to them at all. In fact, i have instantly forgotten about all of them.

Magical circus settings are by far my favourite setting for a novel to take place in, however there was next to no world building in this book, which really stopped it being the 'magical adventure' it claims to be.

My Goodreads Review