I rate this YA novel 5 out of 5
Within The City there is the Carnival
of Souls. It is a place where pleasure, pain, and money, are bought and sold and the rule of the daimon
Marchosias extends over all it's inhabitants. In this order of cast and
protocol Kaleb and Aya, two daimons from very different casts, fight for a
chance to change their destinies. However their fights and lives are more
entangled than they ever could imagine. And then there is Mallory, a girl who
has grown up in the human world, taught by her father that witches like him are
to be trusted, while daimons from The City are the sworn enemy. It is all she
has known in her life filled with training and running from the daimons that
seek what her father stole from them long ago. If only she could find what had
been stolen and return it, then maybe their lives could settle down. Maybe they
could be a normal family. But the mystery of the stolen object is one with the
power to change her whole existence and everything she has come to know.
Carnival of Souls is dark, bewitching, and utterly entrancing. In the same way Marr developed an entire world and hierarchy for the fey in her Wicked Lovely series, she does it again with the same fantastic results in this newest series beginning.
Told from multiple points of view, the reader watches the story unfold from all sides, no part of the story neglected or left half told. It is a rich and refreshing narration that a reader looks forward to in this novel, the action violence and romantic intrigue balanced perfectly.
I highly recommend this new series, and any of Marr's other books to readers. Though working, participating in NaNoWriMo, and keeping up with a decently active social life, I still managed to finish this book in a matter days.
by Alissa Tsaparikos
Carnival of Souls is dark, bewitching, and utterly entrancing. In the same way Marr developed an entire world and hierarchy for the fey in her Wicked Lovely series, she does it again with the same fantastic results in this newest series beginning.
Told from multiple points of view, the reader watches the story unfold from all sides, no part of the story neglected or left half told. It is a rich and refreshing narration that a reader looks forward to in this novel, the action violence and romantic intrigue balanced perfectly.
I highly recommend this new series, and any of Marr's other books to readers. Though working, participating in NaNoWriMo, and keeping up with a decently active social life, I still managed to finish this book in a matter days.
by Alissa Tsaparikos
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