The Night Circus
By Erin Morgenstern
This week's book I started forever ago. It was in our bathroom and I would read it in the bath or when I was doing my business. I read it on the stationary bike every once and a while, but mostly I read a few pages at at time. The fact that I only read a few pages at a time may have caused me to not connect with the plot as well as I should have. I had a really hard time connecting to the characters and the plot throughout the entire time.
The story is about about two men of magic having a competition where they pick a younger magic filled child and compete to see which is a better illusionist until one of them dies. The two older men have done this test of strength but this book only shows this last development. The young competitors fall in love and the circus that they are both somehow connected to for some reason can't run without them. Also there is some clock that also has to be there or all the people that work in the circus will die maybe? Oh and once you join the circus you don't age, except these twins that were born the first year that the circus came about, because they age for some reason. And don't forget the circus only is at night and never advertised in advance when or where they are going to be next.
Apparently they are making a movie out of this book at some point (I didn't know that until today). Maybe the film could explain the plot better, or show that razzle dazzle of how “cool” the circus can be. I thought the book would be like the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, but it wasn't AT ALL! I didn't enjoy the book and I only finished it because I wanted to know if one or both of them were going to die to end the challenge. I wouldn't recommend this book.
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