nicobella 's review for:

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

4.0

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3.5 stars. I avoided this book because the circus setting always put me off. Now that I’ve read it, it’s not about a circus. It begins as a beautifully told, effed up story about two selfish magicians who raise two children in isolation for the sole purpose of a game and the innocent lives who get entangled into the plays decade after decade. I was hooked by the lush writing and desire to know how the game would end. It began to lose me when it leaned into a romance built on infatuation (vomit) and I felt like I was just being told what was happening by the end, it became less about my connection to these characters.