What Is The Synopsis Of The Night Circus, By Erin Morgenstern

“The circus arrives at night, without warning,” (11). In Erin Morgenstern’s first book, the beautifully written The Night Circus depicts a fantasy-like world where magic actually exists. Celia and Marco, the two characters the plot is based around, duel it out in accordance to a long-standing rivalry between their magic teachers. Through Morgenstern’s well-written, powerful imagery that entirely captivates the reader, the author allows the audience to experience and ponder over the wonderfully puzzling story of a curious black and white circus controlled by these young magicians. While The Night Circus is written with such detail that the story grabs the reader’s attention and refuses to let go, the book’s plot tends to fail the reader’s expectations

In the synopsis of the book, it claims that “ a fierce competition is underway” and that “the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.” While the synopsis is able to grab a reader’s attention remarkably well due to its usage of strong adjectives, the promised suspense in the storyline is nonexistent within the actual text, which was a grave disappointment. The Night Circus was written in a unique way that allowed the author to skip to a time in the future or past, so there was no fluid, connected timeline throughout the book, forcing the readers to connect the pieces on their own and figure out the plot for themselves. This made the already confusing storyline even more puzzling, completely ruining the suspense that had built up from the exchanges between the two main characters. When most of a reader’s time is spent figuring out the storyline of the book rather than actually reading and understanding the plot and characters, the mood and suspense is utterly ruined for the readers, along with one’s feelings and emotional investment in the book. Therefore, even with the wonderfully detailed writing, Morgenstern fails in writing an engaging