a fifo wife {fifo life: Good reads: The night Circus~ Erin Morgenstern}

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. 

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. 

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Did I like it? It was okay; it didn’t overwhelm me and I actually read it because well ‘Gwyneth’ recommended it. I wouldn’t reread it and it took me awhile to get into it or may be I would reread it because again Gwyneth recommended it and maybe I missed it brilliance but it kept me from being lonely for more than a few evenings and that I guess is the best indicator of whether its a good read or not.

Have you read it? Did you enjoy it? What’s the latest book you read? 

xx Deb