The Night Circus

This could have been a really good book but it wasn't. The premise was wonderful and then the author ruined it with endless unnecessary descriptive passages (apparently readers cannot be trusted to have any imagination whatsoever) and flat characters with no sense of personal identity (like characters in a fairy tale, they are stock figures and difficult to keep straight). Ms. Morgenstern uses language beautifully; sadly, she can't tell a story effectively.

Right near the end of the book, one of the characters is asked to tell a story from the heart, not the head Perhaps this is something the author could try.