Though there are parts of this book I found (maybe deliberately) confusing, if you like to read about a fantastic traveling circus in the last days of the 19th century, an aerialist with wings & a former sex worker who is also a suffragist & a revolutionary , if you like magical realism, if you like...
I feel like I should've read this before reading either 'The Night Circus' or 'Mechanique' - and I feel like now I've got a better background in surrealist circus fiction.I have to admit, I didn't love this book as much as I loved 'The Night Circus' - but I think it's probably a better work of liter...
Seems to me the "style" of the novel changed in each of the three parts - the first (from Jack's point of view) had many large words (Brobdingnagian!), and I enjoyed that quite a bit. I was lost through the second section - it didn't seem to coalesce, and had a third person point of view. Didn't lik...
Prose - 5 Awesome and fascinating. If only I actually cared about what she was saying.Story - 3 Strangely less interesting than one would expect winged Victorian harlots to be.Characters - 2 Em. Kudos for originality & development, but aside from me caring not a jot about them they had a strangely c...
Ok, I admit, at first, the book started a little too heavily for me. The first third is dedicated to Fevvers telling her life story to Walser, entertaining the press, as she put it, and of course it was constructed in a way that was supposed to entertain the obvious - full of long words, rampant exc...
Magic and reading have something in common. It’s that thin wedge that question of what is real and what is fantasy. We know that the magician is doing some trick, but we just can’t get it, can’t figure it out. With books, good ones at least, the trick is the writing taking you someplace else. Bo...
BkC15) Carter, Angela, [NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS]: *swoon*Yes indeed, I still agree with myself here. In these fill-in reviews of the over 100 books my RL (or F2F, whichever) book circle has read since 1994 that I have never written reviews for, I'm finding that some opinions have changed significantly....
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