The Night Circus in #Pages4Progress Summer Reading Challenge

Nov 05, 2016 Katie Bananas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Rating this masterpiece as a 5 STARS is a mere underestimation of its valeur!!! This piece is worth a galaxy of stars. I have never and will never experience the feels I have right now ever again.

This book was recommended and hyped on GoodReads by many. I came to read it once, I had only read three entries and gave up for lack of time and energy.

I was WRONG. When I read this book, I was paying attention to suddenly everything. Morgenstern's writing style is pure poetry, bardic tales, as Widge Rating this masterpiece as a 5 STARS is a mere underestimation of its valeur!!! This piece is worth a galaxy of stars. I have never and will never experience the feels I have right now ever again.

This book was recommended and hyped on GoodReads by many. I came to read it once, I had only read three entries and gave up for lack of time and energy.

I was WRONG. When I read this book, I was paying attention to suddenly everything. Morgenstern's writing style is pure poetry, bardic tales, as Widge had called them. Something so tangible, she should really teach it; however hard it would be for the student to apply such a phenomenal skill. I was swept and bathed with all of the emotions I can express, feel, and experience from tears, frustration, anger, anxiety, fear, surprise, astonishment, excitement, happiness, and a child's pure joy throughout every of the five parts of the book. Every death hurt my heart and cracked my soul, I was so scared for all of the characters. Marco begging Celia that he loves her was a complete ocean of tears on my end, along with Widge's conversation with Alexander, I thought he was a truly amazing smartass, but Erin Morgenstern proved me so horribly wrong, and put tears in my eyes at everyone of the statements, and revelations that I found out throughout my reading of this beautiful novel.

Thank you Morgenstern for making me wonder what the future holds for Celia and Marco... I hated knowing Tsukiko's truth, as of being not only a mere contortionist, but a player of this magical game, never having her truths revealed or helping them before. She helped each one of them see life for themselves.

I can feel the experience, the odor as I walk through and just imagine the caramel apples and the warm cup of mulled cider... I cannot express the joys I had with Bailey, and the fear of him not jumping on that train before the Circus officially leaves.

Such pure joy only comes a few times when it comes to books, this art of fiction is written so gracefully that it spills the words like wine poetically, down to the romance and censored feelings of love making. How beautiful!!! I'm still in the feeling, the excitement, and tears that comes to say that this is the best piece of fiction I have come across.

Thank you so much Erin Morgenstern for the beautiful experience you gave me to write my first worthy review full of spoils of my emotions wandering throughout your book. Please write anything, a mere page will do. Be certain that I will surely read!! I do not wish to see this as a movie, because everything I'm experiencing now will be wiped off with windex if the book and all it's details are not perfectly translated. I'm so warm inside having read through nights of tea, but finishing it saddens me. I would read your writing in many books for a very long time. I'm glad Harry Potter introduced me well to magic, so that now I can really deeply identify with yours. Bon rêves!! :) ...more

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Nov 12, 2022 Kirstie Ellen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, fantasy, magical-realism

There is nothing more magical than an Erin Morgenstern book.

I should've read this a long time ago, but whew I'm glad I have now. I don't even know if I fully understood everything that happened in the book, but just like The Starless Sea it was a delightful journey to go on, full of tangible characters that you fall in love with.

The way that Morgenstern writes is truly something else. It's magical, absorbing, frilly and grounded. The descriptions of things suck you right in to the story and you ...more

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Aug 13, 2021 Jamie (The Kansan Reader) marked it as not-interested · review of another edition

This was a book that I was looking forward to reading, but certain aspects of the book no longer intrigue me anymore.

The hype behind this book is big! After reading both positive and negative and everything in-between reviews, I have decided this book is not for me.

Since I have become a born-again Christian I dislike certain things that I use to like such as cussing in books. I also read that the hero cheats on the heroine, whether that is true or not I can't stand for cheaters. That is a huge ...more

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Jul 11, 2015 Ari rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, romance, young-adult, fiction, five-star, owned

There are some books you read that deserve more than five stars.

Books that take you to new worlds that are so exciting and carefully crafted that you wish you could stay there forever. Introduce you to characters so wonderful that your expectations for real life just shoot up. And have descriptions so tantalizing, oh please, take me to the world of the Night Circus.

Erin Morgenstern weaves an enchanting tale of two magicians, destined to be opponents in a game. They are told only one thing.
(1) Th ...more

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