The Night Circus

I'm not sure how I feel about this book.

It was a great read with fantastic prose. It manages to evoke a sense of wonder which few other books/other types of entertainment have managed to do. It's a beautiful book, a magical one, ultimately about the magic of story-telling and the power of empathy.

And yet, the writing often felt dreamy and disjoined (which I liked at times but disliked at other times). Some of the characters seemed very two-dimensional and flat and the plot was a bit shoddy.

I suppose the main character is really the circus itself, which was fully fleshed out. It becomes a living entity, one that you constantly want to know more about.

I really liked it for what it is. Don't go into this book expecting a great plot and amazing characters (a mistake I made)– instead, prepare yourself for a magical place which your inner-child will long to go play in. If you go into this book expecting that, you will be handsomely rewarded.