After all the hype about The Night Circus, I have to admit
that it was a book I was really looking forward to reading. Top of the
bestseller list, fantasy, romance, what’s not to like? But it was different
than that, and also more. This was a book that surprised me.
The Night Circus is essentially the story of two young
magicians locked in a duel that both were entered into without their knowledge.
The setting of their duel? The mystical, fantastical night circus, which is
unlike any circus that anyone has ever been to, because it is sustained by real
magic. Celia is an “illusionist,” who doesn’t need sleight of hand or
distraction to create her illusions, one of the main events of the circus, who
travels around from city to city. Marco is the assistant to the circus owner,
supervising from afar and constantly adding attractions, while being tied to it
through the circus’ constantly burning bonfire. The book is the story of Celia
and Marco’s dance around each other, their duel, their mutual admiration, and
their eventual love. But only one of the participants can survive the contest.
I really liked The Night Circus. I was expecting more
action in a book centered around a magician duel, but all in all, this is more
of a book about the circus itself, and beauty and magic. It’s very well written
and engrossing. There was a spot around the middle where I started to get tired
of the constant additions to the circus with seemingly no outcome or events
that even affected the participants, but near the end I was sucked back
in. The way the story is told is somewhat scattered, jumping from time
period to time period, interspersed with brief pages of description as if the
reader is a participant in the circus, but somehow it works.
4- very good and I’d re-read it, but the slow part in the
middle kept it from being a 5.
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