Recommended if you like heavy romance, colorful prose & magical realism with a fast pace! This thrilling & enigmatic novel is full of suspense, deceptions & twist upon twists. However it sorely lacks world building & for a story centered in a carnival of magic, there really isn’t much exploration of its world. So Ignore the hype & the Night Circus comparisons. Because it’s really about romance, treacherously deceitful characters & lots of dress descriptions. The heroine is ignorant, vain & frets the entire time… But she does eventually learn to stand up for herself! And the sequel from her sisters POV looks like it’ll be even more spellbinding than the first!
