The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

While the idea is kind of cool, the execution was not there. Exceedingly long descriptions meant to fascinate and beguile were simply too much. The author spends too much time insisting how magical everything in the circus is without really giving the reader much reason to buy into it.

I never became invested in any of the characters. There was a very long buildup, where all the characters were introduced (well most, except for the rat...