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Le Cirque des Reves (Circus of Dreams) arrives without warning and is only open from sundown to dawn. Everything is in black and white. Behind the scenes a competition is being played out by two young magicians, Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair, each representing a master magician and his theory of magic. Unknown to them is the fact that only one of them will be left standing. As they create new magical displays they begin to fall in love and that puts the competition, the circus and all the lives
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A fun and very atmospheric story that was wonderful at making me feel like I was in the world of the story, but I felt like the book relied too much on description and not enough on plot. Not that the plot that's there wasn't engaging and interesting, it just seemed to be bogged down in a swamp of descriptive writing. I would recommend this for any readers who enjoy magical fantasy or romance.
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Eh. I liked it for the most part I guess, but would I recommend it to a friend? No. The story was pretty good, but there was no WOW going on. It kinda just tinkered on without any magnitude. I think a great (or even good) book provokes feeling in a reader. This book certainly lacked that.
My recommendation? Move on. There are too many extraordinary books out there to waste your time on this one.
My recommendation? Move on. There are too many extraordinary books out there to waste your time on this one.
Wow, what a perfectly boring book. Quite a few of my friends highly recommended it to me, but it was not what I expected. I felt as if I was watching a foreign film and was so focused on the English subtitles that I missed many portions of the plot. I like circuses but this left me feeling less than bedazzled.
Actual rating 3.5 stars.
Jul 16, 2013
Steven
marked it as to-read
Oct 03, 2015
Alison (Lady Coffin) S
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Oct 28, 2015
Ev
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Apr 25, 2016
XiangYu
marked it as to-read
