A review by emmacartlidge
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Did not finish book.

The book hinges on the readers acceptance of the fact that this plot is driven by an unknown, unexplained mystery which no one knows why or when is happening. Sure it may be explained at the end, but who wants to read hundreds of pages of descriptions if there’s no solid back bone to the book. A plot spanning decades of time needs to have an end goal, and this plot lacks grip. The night circus follows a circus more than a cast of characters, and despite the circus being beautifully described, no one’s knows why it exists, how it travels, when it moves and how it works. It seems that the author designed the plot to be so vague no one could give criticisms to the logic of the book, while failing to realise that this vagueness is a flaw itself.