Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- May 5, 2019
- 2 min read
***BOOK REVIEW***
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
This is an absolutely beautifully written piece of work. The story was detailed and so very clever. However I found it very slow, and while interesting things occurred, there was a lot of focus on things that were in my mind just fillers. I guess one could argue that it added to the whole story, but there just wasn’t that sense of excitement I always like in my books. The detail was a bit overemphasized in my opinion, I spent a lot of time trying to imagine what the author saw, instead of being allowed to create my own world of it in my head. I also found the time jumps difficult to keep up with. I almost needed to take notes to remember who was where and what was happening and what had happened already and what was yet to happen. However the ending keeps in with the beauty of the book so I finished it a happy reader. ★★★.5
See below for synopsis:
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.
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