smith-jones reviewed on 4/7/2013 + 47 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I loved it! It's hard to believe this is the author's first novel. The magic, the theatrics, the visual and sensory details that rushed through me as I read the story were profound. I was expecting a battle of wands and lighting bolts and crashing elements and instead I was regaled with sophistication, delicacy and poetry transformed into enchanted pavilions that told a story o evolving love, ethereal suspense and eventually sacrifice. Although love was not at the forefront at all, it was just part of it as the scent of the caramel popcorn at the entrance of the courtyard to the circus.

The conclusion if fulfilling although not fully materialized as your ordinary happy ending but it's there left as a precious crystal gem that is better off left to the shimmer of the imagination.

The book went beyond my expectations and it is stands right now as my first #1 of my 2013 read list.

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