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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Start date: April 1, 2012

Finish date: April 30, 2012

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Jul 17, 2019 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, mgr, historical-fiction, magicians, favorite-authors, multiple-points-of-view, magical-realism

Enchanting
Magical
Wonderful

Welcome to the Night Circus where nothing is what it seems and it all that you that can ever imagine wanting.

A test
A challenge
A love story.

Two people pitied against the other in a game, a challenge endure.
Lives forever changed.
Within and outside of black and white tents of the Le Cirque de Rêves

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Sep 09, 2014 Krissy rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-before-2015, audiobook, cover-color-black, pgs-300-399

First of all the narrator they chose for the audiobook version was all wrong. Most of the characters were young but yet the narrator sounded like a 60 year old man. He didn't do female voices very well and listening to him try and talk like a 6 year old girl was almost laughable. Plus all his female characters sounded the same. I just did not like him at all.

Now for the story itself. It took a very long time to actually get interesting. First you had all these characters thrown at you all at on ...more

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Jan 18, 2012 D.G. rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook, reviewed, magical-realism

**3.5 stars**

I've started The Night Circus many, many times but I had problems sticking with it, mostly because I had the audiobook version narrated by Jim Dale, which made me think of Harry Potter. The impression that I was listening to Harry Potter never went away completely (not only because of the narration but because of the descriptions of the Circus, which reminded me a lot of the Potter world) but at least it faded enough that I was able to enjoy the book.

The plot took a long time to get ...more

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Apr 10, 2017 Avigail rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible, audiobook, own, physical-book, 2017

This book an interesting one, even though when I read a couple of years ago I didn't pass the 20-page mark. This time I was interested to read before reading "Caraval", that I got on an "Owlcrate" subscription book box. Because I was afraid I wouldn't pass again the 20-page mark, I decided to listen to the audiobook and following it with my paperback copy. Jim Dale was the narrator and I absolutely loved his voice and the voices and accents he did for all the characters.
While reading and listeni ...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Soelo rated it it was amazing

Shelves: lovedfantasy, srchallenge, yearly, novelrpg, locusaward, mythopoeicaward

I loved this book, but it is hard to pinpoint why. The real world and the fantastic overlap in a believable way. The descriptions of the atmosphere of the circus were rich and detailed without getting tedious. The plot is not strictly linear, but it does follow a certain logic. Except for the antagonists, all of the characters are likeable or at least admirable without being Pollyannas.

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Aug 18, 2020 Ketutar Jensen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: magic

I don't like it as much as Starless Sea, but it is excellent, wonderful... I love it :-) ...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Rachel N. rated it it was amazing

Celia and Marco are attached to each other in a game when they are children. Once they become adults they must play out the game in a special circus, the circus of dreams. It took me awhile to get into this book but by the end I was totally in love with it. I want to become a memebr of Le Cirque des Reves. A great love story and a magical book.

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