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1.5 stars
A circus that appears only at night sounds like it’ll give you delicious goose bumps, like Something Wicked This Way Comes. There is nothing sinister about this circus at all. It’s beautiful and dreamy and refreshes your soul. Two young people are bound to a competition by their magic masters. I was expecting something like this:
but got something more like this:
The blurb is misleading. It had me thinking that Isabel was really Celia’s alias. The love story doesn’t start until after ha ...more
A circus that appears only at night sounds like it’ll give you delicious goose bumps, like Something Wicked This Way Comes. There is nothing sinister about this circus at all. It’s beautiful and dreamy and refreshes your soul. Two young people are bound to a competition by their magic masters. I was expecting something like this:
but got something more like this:
The blurb is misleading. It had me thinking that Isabel was really Celia’s alias. The love story doesn’t start until after ha ...more
The circus itself is beautiful and the writing lush and descriptive (generally) but no matter how wondrous the circus is it can't make up for the lack of plot or real characters. I had no emotional connection to any with the exception (barely) of Bailey who really isn't the main character. I definitely enjoyed it until the lack of plot slowly stole what energy it had and I slogged through the second half even the climax was a slow read. Still it had some enjoyable moments and any circus fanatic
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The writing is a poetic blanket that is enough to cover the slow moving story
Feb 23, 2013
Carmen Blankenship
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JD
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Sep 09, 2014
Victoria (RedsCat)
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Apr 13, 2015
Melissa
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Jun 28, 2015
Christiana
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Apr 30, 2016
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Feb 16, 2018
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