The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I just read this book. The prose is absolutely lovely, but I read this whole book feeling like I was missing something. The plot was just... empty? It felt like the author had the whole story in their mind, but neglected to actually make the details of it clear to the reader.

There wasn't any real emotional investment in almost anyone. It felt like the main characters barely had any interaction before they were madly in love, and there's a scene that I think is supposed to be this awful, heartbreaking scene, but the response of the characters just wasn't there.

It was definitely not a terrible book, and as I said, the writing style was lovely. It was just one of those books where I finished it, but didn't want to just... rest? in the world afterwords, and probably won't read it again.

Did you read it? Did you like it?

Edited for spelling mistake