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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Start date: March 1, 2021

Finish date: March 31, 2021

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Jan 03, 2021 Danielle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Jan 23, 2013 Meghan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, fantasty-urban-fantasy, via-audible, ya-i-d-actually-recommend, fun-and-fluffy, ya, around-the-world, 2015

Enchanting

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Nov 17, 2017 Ami rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, romance, historical, own, audio-books, 19th-century, hocus-pocus-challenge

This.... is hard to quantify. It is a book that started slow & confusing and certainly didn't end as expected. It is a book that I listened to on audio for a reading challenge in one of my myriad of book clubs and one that I almost sat down several times. It is a quirk of mine that if an audio fails to grab my imagination, I am just as prone to falling asleep than to follow along. However, the beautiful prose and the circus itself finally caught my attention once I figured out the way the concur ...more

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Apr 05, 2012 Caro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: other-worldly

Such an enchanting book! Read the last 100 pages last night and even though my eyes and brain were telling me to sleep, the words kept drawing me in...keeping me up. I must say this isn't your average mushy-cheesy romance novel. It's so much more than that. Two stories, a year apart in time, eloquently and intricately intertwined and Erin Morgenstern never skips a beat. I highly, most definitely recommend this tale of two rival magicians whose love for one another spawned the most imaginative ci ...more

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Jan 06, 2012 Mekerei rated it really liked it

"The circus arrives without warning. The tents are striped in black and white, no colour at all. The black sign painted in white letters reads: Opens at night fall / Closes at dawn. 'What kind of circus is only open at night?'... Le Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams)

The Night Circus is one of those books that people either love or hate. I’m in the former category. It is definitely jostling for the best books I’ve read this year. I’ve only read nine, but I think it will be a difficult book t ...more

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Dec 04, 2012 Shahrin rated it really liked it

I loved that this connected from the beginning to the end. The romance seemed a little much at times but it was well done. The protagonist is extremely interesting. Overall I was astonished as to how 'yummy' this book was. I wanted to eat everything in it, and the air of mystery and magic was done artfully. The interwoven relationships are the strength of this book and the rich themes of Merlin, rebirth, time, and death recur throughout the book. A sumptuous read for sure. ...more

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