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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
3.0

Initial post-listen thoughts: I’m extremely conflicted as to what my exact feelings are for this book. Perhaps it’s because I went in expecting to love it, but I’m left, not disappointed exactly, but not completely fulfilled. The writing style is interesting, but also acted as a prop to the actual plot of the story. That is, given the roaming nature of the narrator and the movement between third and second person, a lot of narrative points that would’ve demanded immediate address in a traditional third person narrative were addressed either far later in the story or not at all. The magic and setting are enchanting and there were some other nice things, but aside from those elements the overall story arc falls a bit flat.