A huge build-up throughout the book that I expected to culminate in an apocalypse of some kind, but only quietly and gently ended. For the most part, they were pretty one dimensional as they interacted with each other and in the realm of the circus. The Not-So-Magical: While many reviewers were taken by the depth of the characters, I found just the opposite. How unique to focus on the scents and how powerful it created the reality. How beautifully written it was with the sights and sounds and especially, the smells. The Magical: Descriptions of the circus were truly amazing. There is a lot to enjoy in this book, but also much that fell flat despite my expectations especially after reading the glowing reviews.

The descriptions of some of the stuff were interesting but descriptions of settings do not a good novel make unless they make the STORY more interesting. It was almost like the writer was trying so hard to hit all the trends that they forgot to write a good story. Steampunk, wizards and magic, forbidden love, etc, etc.

Over all it was like a novel trying to pull in trends from other books that were big hits. They were not the most interesting people at the circus but the interesting ones didn't get their stories told at all. The storey disintegrated into a love story about two people we really didn't know much about personality wise and didn't care that much about.

I think a circus setting is marvelous and the idea of magical people controlling it was interesting too but was never made into anything that wowed me. It was a really detailed book with a lot of descriptions and some were really interesting, some not so much. This novel did not match the hype around it. 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.

The night circus book