I really enjoyed this at first but about three fifths of the way in it completely falls apart and gets worse and worse. There is no consistency to any of the characters even from one chapter to the next. They all speak in exactly the same way. Long sections of dialogue have nothing to do with either character speaking and are essentially the author talking to herself about how boring people are scared to believe in magic or something. The plot makes little sense. The magic makes zero sense. A Catastrophe. The descriptive writing about the circus itself is nice.