I really salute Morgenstern’s ambition with this book - it’s a sort of self-reflexive meta fantasy novel. If that kind of sentence excites you then you will love this, but I found it quite a difficult read. I couldn’t really get into the flow of the story and felt lost with it a lot of the time (which I think may have been a deliberate choice by Morgenstern, but it was exasperating nonetheless).

I really liked the characters - Zachary, Kat and Mirabel in particular - but I didn’t feel like I really got to know them. That said, I enjoyed Morgenstern’s writing style and imagination enough to keep The Night Circus on my tbr, and I’m looking forward to seeing what her new book will be like.