Fares's Reviews > The Night Circus

There are two things you need to know about me before reading this review; one I love stories and two I love books and movies with lots of characters that interact and influence each other indirectly. This book has both.

I do not know why but his book felt like the stories my grandma use to tell me, even though they have nothing in common, it felt weirdly nostalgic.

The book tells the story of a challenge set in a circus. Celia trained by her father and Marco taught by Mr. Alexander compete without knowing each other, but when you do not know the rules of a challenge, you start to think of it less of a challenge and more of a collaboration; and when the consequences of their challenge start to effect people in and outside the circus, they realize that the challenge must end but what would be the cost of that.

Although Celia and Marco are the main characters, they still felt weird to me and I feel I understand some of the other characters better like Poppet, Widget and Bailey but I guess that was intended. I loved the writing style very much and the chapters that address you as a visitor of the circus were so vividly described, in some moments it felt like I'm really there. I think this is why I relate it to my grandmother's stories, because as a kid you have no problem imagining the characters and the set of the story and with this book it was exactly like that. I also loved how this book moves between different characters from different places through different times and I never felt bored or wanted to read about a character more than the others, it was very well balanced and each character had its story to tell.

Now you are probably wondering if you loved it and there is nothing bad about it, why didn't you gave it 5 stars?
The simple answer is I do not know, I honestly don't, it just didn't feel like it.