Review: Welcome to the Carnival of Souls
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
The center of the City is home to the Carnival of Souls. And every generation the Carnival of Souls hosts the Competition. The winner gets a lot of power and the losers get shame or death. This is where Aya and Kaleb are. Fighting for a better life than they would have otherwise. Mallory resides in a different world. She's been raised by a witch to fear the daimons who reside in the City. Her and her father are constantly on the run so that the daimons don't find them and try to take back what her father had stolen from them. She may know nothing of the City, but the City knows her.It was disappointingly easy to figure out what the object was that was stolen by Mallory's father. I'm surprised she hadn't figured it out sooner. I guess her brain was pretty muddled with magic though.I appreciate how the pain is realistic most of the time. Things actually hurt them in their human form and I like that they don't ignore their injuries.There's a line that kept repeating throughout this book that made me think of the video game Bioshock."good daughters obey" it made me think of the line "a man chooses a slave obeys" so every time I read that line I immediately though of Bioshock, though the worlds and situations aren't similar at all.This was a really fascinating story and I loved getting totally immersed in the world that Melissa Marr created. I can't believe how this ended though! I need the next book immediately. I hate when books end like this. You're just about ready to start to epic journey and that's all folks. It was a really great story though and I am dying to read the next!First Line:"The man—witch—who'd summoned Selah was nothing like what she'd expected."Favorite Line:"Kaleb wished he could take a few moments to see what she read, what she listened to, what secrets were revealed by what she chose."