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the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. There are a
lot of directions this novel could have taken, being essentially
fantasy. Sort of enduring love story worked pretty well...
The premise was shaky. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. When I was a child I read and saw The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, about a mysterious circus that changed people's lives. Even though Tony Randall sucked as Dr. Lao, the stop motion animation more than made up for it... Anyway the Night Circus reminded me of that experience. It was purposefully disjointed, and bounced around in time and point of view more than I am comfortable with, but it was unpredictable in outcome and an interesting adventure... |