The night circus is a magical and enthralling account of a competition which in the simpliest terms gets out of hand. The world is rich and striking, pulling the reader in. Despite this, however, I didn't love the book. For a character driven novel I found that many of the characters just lacked personalities. In this I mean they had very little distinguishable qualites about them and were almost all displayed as a "good" and devoid of any emotion. so, when we could have investigated anger at the situation or lust, or even jealously (because for the better part of the novel no one and I mean NO ONE displays any real emotion) the characters are just there providing dialogue and co-existing and are in a manner wooden. In this aspect I feel it was hard to connect with any of the characters. 
 We have children in the story who act as if they were 30, and yes Children can be mature but I cannot for a second believe that they would possess no childish qualites at all. then we have adults who we are told care for each other but there is little evidence other that the author's assurance that this is actually the case. 
 For all intents and purposes, this is a light read, it's not in anyway a bad novel but personally I feel it's missing something.