The Night Circus

I was expecting so much more. But, to be fair, all of the glowing reviews I read for this book praised the descriptive language and the scene-setting, which were fantastic. But the characters were empty and the plot was poorly developed, barely explained and hardly even carried out to an end. Throw in the timeline jumping with no true payoff, and I'm giving this somewhere between 2 1/2 and 3 stars. It was a pretty quick read, at the least.