This had potential... but it was all over the place at times, rushed, and never felt cohesive enough. Honey and Aki are interesting. Also right when it even starts to get intriguing, well it ends and it will never be completed since the manga got canceled. Go read classic Cutie Honey classic and skip this mess.

This book started off with me almost putting it down for good just in 2 chapters. Scarlett is annoying as hell to start off this story. If it wasn't for the intriguing notion of what the Caraval mystery was offering, I might have just been done. In the end I'm glad I stuck with it as once the mystery starts kicking off, it is a fun ride. I had a lot of fun with the twists and turns in this book, and seeing a certain character getting what he deserved felt good. I only have one last complaint, which would be the world building. Settings were just thrown together, with very little build up of what me as a reader should be seeing.

This is another one of those ratings where I wish Goodreads would allow half stars. In my mind, this book is about a 3.5, and I feel like a half star up and down is either overrating or underrating it. But I'll go with 3 stars for this first book in the series based on how I almost dropped it off the bat. The ending of this book at least made the next book's plot setup super interesting.

This book started off well, and interesting. A murder mystery and a ghost who wants answers. It had a couple truly creepy moments early on. Unfortunately the school setting, characters, and story was just filled with all the cliches and tropes we've seen way too often. The only originality was how the ghost, Kayla, had a kept a diary while alive and referenced to the people she was writing about with numbers. The only thing I would look forward to about a third of the way in was the diary sections.

This had the potential to be creepy, but instead of realizing that potential, settled for not much at all.