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kimia_esf 's review for:
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
I'm so disappointed and annoyed, even a bit heartbroken cause I had so much hope for this. I was so sure it's gonna be amazing and I'm gonna love it that I delayed reading it for years to find the perfect moment to read it.
And when the moment finally arrived, what I got instead of the magical wonderful breathtaking dreamlike mystery I was hoping for, was this :
A very very promising start, about 400 pages of absolute nothingness, and a very meh ending.
Sooo much potential, and it all went to waste.
You'd expect a book about a "fierce and brutal competition" to be full of excitement and stress. It wasn't. It was one of the most BORING books I've ever read in my entire life.
What it was instead, was hundreds of pages of saying everything in the circus is black and white a BILLION times, describing tents, their sizes and their entrances and number of seats, furnitures and dresses and the food in the circus, which room led to where and how many shades of grey you can have with black and white.
The progress was so unbearably slow. The "competition" was just the main characters adding tents to the circus once every couple of months. And the mysterious vibe that it was supposed to have, had turned to very, very vague weird sentences. There was nothing about the characters to make them likeable. They have no personality or depth. Even their appearances apparently didn't matter enough to be described among all of that blabbering, all that was said was that Celia has brownish curls, Marco has green-grey eyes, the twins have red hair and Bailey is tall. That's all there was about them.
When it finally got to the romance part, it was just that, "getting to that part". We suddenly just jumped into the characters madly loving each other. No process of falling in love, no resisting it because they're competitors, no nothing.
After a bit over two thirds of the book, FINALLY stuff began to happen and the pace picked up. And things wrapped up "okay". But considering how dire the situation was supposed to be, it shouldn't have been that easy and there should've been more consequences as the author kindly mentioned "actions have repercussions" at least 250 million times.
Instead of 600 pages, this could've been 200-300 pages and it would've been so much less annoying.
Better yet, the author could've used the potential and the amazing setup she created properly and make this a good book. But I guess she just wasn't in the mood for it and prefered making tents in different sizes.
And when the moment finally arrived, what I got instead of the magical wonderful breathtaking dreamlike mystery I was hoping for, was this :
A very very promising start, about 400 pages of absolute nothingness, and a very meh ending.
Sooo much potential, and it all went to waste.
You'd expect a book about a "fierce and brutal competition" to be full of excitement and stress. It wasn't. It was one of the most BORING books I've ever read in my entire life.
What it was instead, was hundreds of pages of saying everything in the circus is black and white a BILLION times, describing tents, their sizes and their entrances and number of seats, furnitures and dresses and the food in the circus, which room led to where and how many shades of grey you can have with black and white.
The progress was so unbearably slow. The "competition" was just the main characters adding tents to the circus once every couple of months. And the mysterious vibe that it was supposed to have, had turned to very, very vague weird sentences. There was nothing about the characters to make them likeable. They have no personality or depth. Even their appearances apparently didn't matter enough to be described among all of that blabbering, all that was said was that Celia has brownish curls, Marco has green-grey eyes, the twins have red hair and Bailey is tall. That's all there was about them.
When it finally got to the romance part, it was just that, "getting to that part". We suddenly just jumped into the characters madly loving each other. No process of falling in love, no resisting it because they're competitors, no nothing.
After a bit over two thirds of the book, FINALLY stuff began to happen and the pace picked up. And things wrapped up "okay". But considering how dire the situation was supposed to be, it shouldn't have been that easy and there should've been more consequences as the author kindly mentioned "actions have repercussions" at least 250 million times.
Instead of 600 pages, this could've been 200-300 pages and it would've been so much less annoying.
Better yet, the author could've used the potential and the amazing setup she created properly and make this a good book. But I guess she just wasn't in the mood for it and prefered making tents in different sizes.