Hi! I love your blog, and your taste in books, I see you read Night Circus and wanted to know your thoughts on it (I've been thinking about reading it for a while) thanks!
Thank you so much for following me! You have a really lovely blog yourself (I hated myself when I scrolled through it) Also, I’m honoured that you would ask my opinion about The Night Circus, and just a warning beforehand - this is gonna be a long answer.
Necessary TL;DR in case you want to scroll past the details: I liked The Night Circus a lot, but that’s just me. It depends on how willing you are to just sit down for awhile and take everything in, but if you are, it’s a magical book to take a meander through.
Four main thoughts -
1. It’s a very descriptive book, and you need to be fascinated enough by circuses to sit through all of the beautiful descriptions - I’ve seen a couple of people complain that they were bored by them because they wanted to get on with the story. I think this was my favourite part of the book though.
2. The story itself has at least fifteen different main characters, I think? Maybe more. It takes patience to remember all of the plotlines and when significant events occur.
3. Speaking of trying to remember significant events, the chapters aren’t in chronological order. Like, the chapter you’re reading may be set in a certain year, and the next chapter could be around twenty years later or five years back. It’s very fluid that way, which I loved, but when things come to a climax towards the end and the years start getting really close to each other it’ll be a bit confusing. It’s worth it, though!
4. You have to switch off your thoughts, especially at the end, and just read the outcome without questioning it too much. This is vague, sorry, but I don’t know how else to say it without giving anything important away. It might just be me who turns stories inside out and examines them from all possible angles, anyway. If you don’t actively question everything the author writes, though, you should be fine in any case!
Sorry for the ramble; hopefully it helps you out some. All of the above is mainly my thoughts plotwise, but if you have any questions about the characters themselves, feel free to ask and I’ll probably answer privately so I don’t annoy my followers!
Conclusion - this book is definitely recommended, so if you ever read it I’d love to know your thoughts when you’re done :D