Listen, I love a circus. Give me a bonkers silly fun book with characters you can’t take seriously any day. But this book and these particular clowns were just not my kind of circus.

This was my first time reading a book by this author so I’m not sure if it’s a style or if this was just the batch of characters that needed wrangling or what? So many times when something needed to happen to move the plot along, the characters got so distracted, I found myself wanted to snap at them and be like “focus!”

I can’t say it didn’t have a light fluffy feel if you’re in that mood but as far as a circus book, this show felt it never got past dress rehearsal before opening night.