Monday 10 July 2017

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern


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I really wanted to like this book. I read this one with my friends as part of our monthly Books with friends, they had both read this on previous occasions and raved about it. Since our tastes in books are very similar I thought this was going to be a great read, how wrong was I?

The circus arrives without warning, no one knows when or where it will pop up. Inside the boundaries of the circus unique experiences full of breathtaking amazements awaits. Only one catch, it is only open at night. There is a competition that has been going for years and the two major players have been chosen when they were children and have since been training. They don’t know the rules of the game, especially the one where only one can survive the game.

It wasn’t that the book, that was supposed to be filled with so many wonderful things, was boring but it just felt like something was off. It took me more than half of the book to finally be pulled into the story, the jumps in the timeline had me confused most of the time and I had to reread several passages to finally get back on board.

There were some colourful characters in this story, and this was probably the only thing that really kept me reading, I wanted to find out what was going to happen to the characters, and in the end, if the circus will be able to survive the game. 

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