» QUICK OVERVIEW «
Stars: ★★★★☆
Plot: ★★★☆☆
Readability: ★★★☆☆
Characters: ★★★☆☆
Writing: ★★★☆☆
Recommend: ✗

» PLOT «
The circus appears out of nowhere. One night it it doesn't exist, the next morning, it appears. As the circus brings in people all over the place, a mysterious competition occurs within its tents. Selected and trained since childhood, Celia and Marco must compete with each other until the end.

I honestly can't accurately describe this book. There's a disappearing/traveling circus, mysterious magic system, and a bunch of other complex people and backstories. I know I was rushing through the ending, but boy was that ending rushed and didn't explain everything. I think I might reread this next year, with the audiobook, and try to pick up on the things I missed.

» READABILITY «
This book (at first) was not an easy read, so after a while, I began to skim and read really fast. Overall, I'd reread, but with the audiobook at 3x speed so that I don't miss anything again.

» CHARACTERS «
The two main characters are nice, but low key not all that interesting. There are a lot of unique characters in this book, but their potential is neither discovered nor explored. I felt that there could've been a lot more done and said about the characters.

» WRITING «
The writing was okay, but a little thick. I felt myself skipping and skimming the book a lot to get to the good parts. Despite that, I also felt that there wasn't enough information. This book was a little too mysterious and there was a bunch of filler.

» OVERALL «
I hate the fact that I found out Jim Dale narrates the audiobook AFTER I finished reading. :( Would've loved hearing him tell the story.

Some of my criticism about this book has to do with the fact that the book was slow at the beginning, so I began to rush reading it, but honestly it also has to due with the amount of filler and vagueness in this book.