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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Start date: January 23, 2012

Finish date: February 16, 2012

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Jul 16, 2013 Lisa Kay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: authors-m, 2013-rlftci-group-challenge, challenge-nbrc-tower, well-narrated, amazing-secondary-characters, authors-e, genre-fantasy, m-own-in-two-media, genre-sci-fi, m-audio-cd-to-ipod-touch

★★★★★ Whoa. I'm speechless. ...more

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Feb 23, 2014 Marie (UK) rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2014-reading-challenge, 2016-reading-challenge

What a fabulously conceived book. The detail in the setting and story line were magnificent. Some say characters were poorly defined but i felt i knew them well enough. There is lots of imagery to do with books, writing, writing on top of writing . ink patterns etc. It seemed like the author is saying the interpretation is yours. I think she purposely does not fully illuminate the characters

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Nov 06, 2016 Siiri rated it it was ok

Another case of a highly hyped book that I felt fell flat for me. Maybe this is another case that was because I listened to it as an audiobook. The book was very descriptive and a bit slow moving which when listening as an audiobook is not ideal. I'd suggest reading a physical copy. Maybe in the future I will give it another try but as of now I don't think I will try again anytime soon. ...more

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Oct 10, 2013 Molly rated it really liked it

Shelves: magical-realism

(POTENTIAL SPOILERS) I kept expecting a big reveal that would make the scope of this story larger than it was, like that X-Files episode with God and Satan playing a game of chess, neither particularly scary nor majestic. I think I would have enjoyed the story more, myself, if I had known from the start that this wasn't ever going to become some parable or analogy for a cosmic showdown. Despite the obvious mystical and magical elements, the characters are all essentially human. The scale of the ...more

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