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I read a lot of YA books, would anyone recommend this book?

Ahmed Hagi Would I recommend The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern?
The Night Circus is about two competitors battle in an illusionist competition, but instead of …moreWould I recommend The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern?
The Night Circus is about two competitors battle in an illusionist competition, but instead of competing against one other they fall in love. The Night Circus is a New York Times bestseller in 2011. The Book display phenomenal visual description and makes the reader feels as if they are in within the scene. This is the case because Erin Morgenstern who is the author is also an artist so she able to greatly describes scene within the novel. Although the visual description is unbelievably good the author kept describing the same scenes continuously within the book. For example, The author Erin Morgenstern would describe the black and white tents in the circus constantly throughout the book. The visual descriptions also distract the reader from other important aspects of a novel such as the plot.
Sometimes while reading the novel I would get distracted by the scenery but and not focus on the storyline. The story also has countless unnecessary chapter which is not really relevant to the plot itself. For example, all those chapters about Herr Friedrich Thiessen and his Fan Club were pretty much pointless toward the plot.
The thing I believe I enjoyed the most about this book is the characters. Lots of minor character within the book have a small but important impact on the plot. For example, a character Tsukiko, who at first at first was thought to be just a simple contortionist within the circus had a much larger impact on the plot than expected near the end of the novel.
Would I recommend the Night Circus, well it depends on who I’m recommending it too? If your someone who enjoy visual descriptions and a very slow but amusing plot this is the novel for you. Likewise, if your someone like me who doesn’t enjoy a slow pace storyline with tons of unnecessary chapters then this is not the novel for you.

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