Book 48. Double my TOTAL goal.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I took awhile to read this as I was totally stuck in the wonder. Absolutely consumed.
I haven't fallen this deep inside a fantasy novel in ages. It was so nice. To escape life and get lost so deep inside a book.
The characters were wondrous. The writing guh SO descriptive I could close my eyes and SEE EVERYTHING. However, were someone else to read it I bet their interpretations would be completely different each of us would have separate circuses going on. And that is the best thing about it! Each reader has their own thing going on.

I was cheering SO HARD for Celia and Marcos. Romances really are not my thing that often once in awhile though one is alright. This one was worth it.

The Murray twins too! That had real names yet went by Poppet and Widget by everyone in the Circus itself. Poppet seeing the future in the stars and Widget being able to read someone's past on their person. They seem to be the only life to come out of the Circus.

Then the death. I was so gutted about Friedrick. Like WHY. I know it was an accident and a part of the plot and authors love to torture us but let me fall in love with the guy and then just snuff him out like that and I'm left sitting here going MY CLOCK MAKER AND WRITER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Then there's the man in the grey suit who remained nameless through the entire thing except I think Marcos called him Alexander possibly? a couple times. And the others referred to him as Mr A H- So there we have our Villain. The one who created the challenge, the internal conflict and Chandresh wanted to end him and make it all go away. And it just didn't turn out that way.

Celia's father Prospero the Entertainer, that put her into the darn thing to begin with. Like thanks for thinking so much of me that I can beat someone in a challenge that we really know nothing about but also thanks for putting me into a challenge that we really know nothing about and I have to compete in it until one of us DIES and the other one is the WINNER? But I won't find that out until I meet a contortionist that already competed in it but won't tell me anything unless I ask her.

Also what was going on with Isobel? Yeah I am asking questions in my review haha. Thinking back to what I read realizing that it was really good but yet there are some things that did not make sense.

I guess this is one of those books that will stay with me for awhile. And I am totally okay with that because it was a really good one. The only thing I am sorry about is that I waited so long to read it.

I also adore the fact the initial planning and plotting phase was done during Nanowrimo. Something I fully support and compete in myself. Writing a 50000 word novel in the month of November each year challenging myself and advising and consorting with other writers along the way.



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