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Welcome, welcome to Finale, the third and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series! Welcome, welcome to Caraval.

Blue de la Cour has her life planned: hide the magic in her blood and continue trying to turn metal into gold so she can help her city’s homeless. But when her father is murdered and a cruel but powerful woman claims custody of Blue and her property, one wrong move could expose her—and doom her once and for all

When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Putting their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vacation, Olive and Ethan head for paradise, determined to avoid each other at all costs.

I’ve read a few books that I enjoyed by Jessica so far, so of course I wanted to check out this new book by her.was definitely an interesting read. That being said, I was still pretty excited to start the story, AND as I read it, I found myself getting more and more curious about the original, and how this retelling compared. (I doubt that I will read the original anytime soon, but we’ll see…).So even though I didn’t know anything about the original story, I still thought this retelling was very interesting. The book ends with a pretty big cliffhanger, and I’m pretty curious to know what’s going to happen next.