The Night Circus

Battling magicians, a touring circus and a love story. It was an easy read and quite entertaining, but in the end it felt too insubstantial, somehow too “glossy” - like the book cover. Even though the characters were varied and colorful they never felt human. They all seemed like pretty pictures with potential, but in the end they were just plot-devices. Which could be fine - just, the plot fell apart in the last half of the book. Making it hard to follow/reason why this or that happened.