

Jordan Bell does things with language that remind of Laini Taylor and Magie Steifvater, in style.

I’m not saying this book outdoes it, or that it replaces it, but I’m saying that this book is also very enchanting and tells its own sexy tail in a circus. There will never be a book so enchanting about the Circus as that one. It was so worth it.Īfter having red The Night Circus, I thought, well that’s done. I spent the entire last day of NaNoWriMo after meeting the 50K goal reading this book. This was my prize for finishing NaNoWriMo, and by finishing you understand making that 50K but leaving my novel in limbo while I wonder off with my new found freedom of time. At the center of the brewing storm hides Sera's heart that can't hope to survive another loss. So when an invitation addressed to her mother's stage name arrives from an old carnival outfit looking to recruit the late fortune teller, Sera answers instead.īewitched by the carnival's handsome illusionist and the dark whimsy of the Carnival Imaginaire, Sera finally feels like she's home until the mystery of her mother's death unravels with the secrets of the carnival's past. Now alone, Sera wanders lost, strangled by the past and unable to pursue her future. It wasn't a perfect life but it was theirs - until a stranger appeared one unremarkable autumn morning to steal the fortune teller's life and leave Sera with nothing but questions. She learned young how to move unseen through crowds, acquire things that didn't belong to her, and disappear at the first sign of trouble. Serafine Moreau grew up on the grimy edges of cities that were never home, raised at the capricious whims of her bohemian, fortune teller mother.
