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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

47 reviews

oceanbluetay's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

eclipse799's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is really lovely. I was confused at the time switches, so I would've had a hard time reading an ebook or audiobook version. 
The imagery is so vivid that I could for real add each element to a mental picture that I could easily construct. Your images will look different, even given the same description, and I think that's what the circus is all about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bobaduckie's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Le Cirque des Rêves arrives without warning and is only open from sunset to sunrise. The circus, and this book, is filled with magic, drama, art, love and mysticism. This is the story of the circus, why it was started and the people that keep it running, it is a truly beautiful book and I would do anything to be one of the dreamers for a night.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

theirgracegrace's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

A loving and alluring pastiche of present, past and future, the Night Circus is a great book for lovers of mystery and magic. The plot centres around le Cirque des rêves, a circus that appears suddenly and is only open at night. The circus is a battleground between two magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been forced into a competition that neither participant quite understands. As the magic of the circus deepens, the two get entangled more and more, and the performers begin to suspect something is afoot...

My most adored parts of the book are the descriptions of the circus venues, from the enigmatic Labyrinth to the Wishing Tree and the Ice Garden. The symbolism of a circus that is adorned in black and white, and it is the visitors who bring colour to it, shows immaculate sense of the book's themes. I was immediately drawn to the character of Bailey and loved how the narrative slowly incorporates him and the rêveurs. A delightful tale with a bittersweet ending that I look forward to reading next time the circus rolls into town!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Vomit, and Classism

One of the side characters get hit by a train

and dies, and people try to make it out that she killed herself (but the reader will know it's not true).

kirjakimalainen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Death of parent

kaylawtzl22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

truly one of the best books i’ve ever read. the setting of the night circus is the plot and a character and the setting. there’s no other way i can describe it, it is EVERYTHING. every single character is so lovable and so unique to each other and any other character ive read. i really do not read fantasy or anything like that, but this book is the exception. you get completely sucked in. sometimes i see people rating it badly saying that nothing HAPPENS in the book and id say that it’s more about the story that’s being told from each character. aka, if you’re a nosey person, you’ll love this book. the level of detail is insane. i highly recommend listening to the audio book over reading it, at least for the first read of this book because there are a lot of characters involved and the narrator does a great job of making them all distinct and giving them different personalities and cadences. i was recommended to do that and i highly agree.

i especially loved how there were interludes written like YOU are at the circus and then at the end it is revealed that you are at the circus IN PRESENT DAY. i just love how it proves that the circus stayed standing and not just for another decade or two.

i love that the ending wraps almost everything in a neat bow and all the main characters get a happy ending. rip heir Thiesen though :(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Murder

Minor: Suicide

linzlee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Abandonment

narzibenoucdel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse