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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Start date: January 23, 2012

Finish date: February 16, 2012

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Jul 17, 2019 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mgr, magicians, fantasy, historical-fiction, 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: cover-color-black, audiobook, pgs-300-399, read-before-2015

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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Sep 22, 2013 Nancy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I really loved this book, despite it taking me an inordinately long amount of time to read. There was so much detail to it though - it actually deserves a second read. I adored Celia, who is one of my favourite characters in recent books. The magic and the whole idea was fantastic - I can only admire the author's imagination. ...more

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

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

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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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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Aug 28, 2018 Cherylcali "turn the page" rated it liked it

The Night Circus had a large promise of a great plot and characters. In my opinion it didn't deliver except in a few issues. If Imagery and love, is what you want in a book then this one is for you. Magic is dispersed throughout the book. Is it Harry Potter as some had said? No, it's not there needs to be more development of characters for this to happen. I gave it a three well, 2.5 since the scene is very beautiful.

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Jun 07, 2016 Carole Workman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: yrchallenge

I just loved this book. I felt that I was inside the fantasy land of the circus. This book kept me very intrigued with all the characters. It was not your typical love story it was so much more. I would highly recommend this.

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Feb 25, 2016 Meredith rated it it was amazing

I really, really enjoyed this book. Reading in present tense was a little weird at first but I got over that quickly. This book was so very magical.

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Aug 07, 2018 Kristin rated it liked it

Shelves: stand-alones, fantasy, read-in-2018

I purchased this book in London while studying abroad this summer and boy did I pick a good one. I've never read a book quite like it before. Highly recommend. ...more

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