Unlike most fantasy fiction filled with battles and actions and so on, The Night Circus focuses on detailed descriptions (like what I tried to do but probably failed in Synopsis below), some are important clues for later events but some are not, simply for the joy of reading. The plot is pretty slow, or rather, things happen but nothing grand. The slow yet comforting prose made me want to keep reading at a steady pace, without too much pressure to read quickly.

This book, magically, soothed my temper and let me really be able to relax after a pretty tense month. I couldn’t begin to express how much I adore this book.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved - from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons - hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love - a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.īut behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

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