He is Poppet’s fraternal twin and gets lesser POV chapters than Poppet, but like Bailey and Poppet, his role is important. Poppet:īailey’s love interest, she has lesser POV chapters, though she too plays an integral role in the book. A black sheep and a disappointment to his parents and a victim to his older sister’s bullying, he is a dreamer who finds solace and solitude in the circus whenever it comes to his city. Though not a main player of the story, he is integral to the plot and several times the chapters are from his POV. His POV seemed more clearer to me than Celia. As an orphan, he was plucked out of an orphanage with the false promise of security. He is the other player, and the male protagonist of the story.

I loved the air of mysticism in her POV, and how the author both discloses her secrets only to introduce new ones to ponder and wonder about. Her father, the famed magician, Hector Bowen, binds her into this game without her consent at the age of six. The female protagonist among the large cast, she is one of the two players. The story is told from multiple POV, and each POV adds to the story. Alongside this storyline is numerous others that somehow impact the main plot, but have their individual footing as well. They are given no choice but to do this, and soon they are also tangled by the binding of love other than the binding their masters had them trapped in. The main plot is about two people, who are pitted against each other since young age by their master charmers. The circus begins to operate after sundown and closes before sunrise. The story is, as you can guess from the title, about a mysterious circus which appears in a town without any notice, and leaves the same way. So without beating around the bush, I’ll dive straight into the dissection without butchering it. From the first chapters, I realized this so I sat back and let it mesmerize me.Įrin Morgenstern is a true storyteller, who weaved the story into such a beautiful way you cannot simplify the story without butchering its essences, what this book stands to accomplish, the same way if you describe a circus as nothing but a place to be entertained by some odd performers. I have read never a book like this, though its magical words and ethereal descriptions made me realize there will never be a book as good as this. But a recent read made me curious and I dove into this masterpiece, and realized what a gem I was putting off. I have thwarted reading it repeatedly since my first taste of circus themed books ended badly. Truth be told, no review of mine will do justice to this fantastically written masterpiece. I was debating with myself if I should either review it immediately after finishing it or sit back for some days to stew over all I read and then take my time to write a review.

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