A review by kspag206
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

dark mysterious slow-paced

4.0

This book sent me for a REAL loop. For the first 60% I was contemplating if it was for me or not. However the back half of the book, when the storylines began closing in on one another, I began to understand why the pace at the beginning was as slow as it was. I appreciate how long you follow the characters for in their lives. While flowery descriptions of scenery and setting can be hard to grasp, and some of it was too much, the author tells you exactly how they want you to see the world they’ve created. 

This book gives: 
Tim Burton but make it a circus and a lose Romeo and Juliet retelling 
I love the Shakespeare references 
The way the storylines come together make the rest of the book worth it, however if I had read this physically, I think would have DNFed, which would have been a big shame. 


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