The Night Circus

When I was first looking at this book, it was at an elementary school book fair on the adult table. After reading the back and seeing the emphasis on the romance aspect of the book, I decided not to buy it. The next time the book fair was back, it was buy 1 get 1 free, so I figured “why not?”.

I'm so glad I bought it.

I'm not a huge fan of novels that focus solely on romance with little other plot line, and turns out this book wasn't one of those novels. The author does a spectacular job of creating this world with refreshing descriptions without overdoing it. The storyline is fairly quick-paced and never, in my opinion, gets dull. Though there is an emphasis on an intense romance later in the book that is an extremely important aspect of the book to create the given ending, it does not feel like it overpowers the other things going on.

One thing I'll admit is I'm glad I read some of the reviews first, solely because I was given a heads up about the changing between times/story lines, so with that in mind I was more easily able to keep the alternate story line in mind throughout the main plot.

I feel like this review is not as clear as I wish I could make it but the best I can say is to give this book a shot. Definitely will be reading again in the future and will recommend to friends.