Martha D. reviewed on 10/8/2009 + 36 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I thought the circus story was fascinating! I knew that it was a hard-scrabble, gritty world, but not to the extreme portrayed here, but then, Benzini Bros must have been a Grade C circus. The individual characters were developed and compelling. The relationships between the animal characters and their "people" were also well developed and compelling. The romantic angle was the only plot element I found predictable and, in a way, out of place in the story. ***SPOILER***Both "stories", past and present, had endings that were just too tidy, especially the transition that Jacob the Elder made; it just seemed too good to be true.

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