Upon finishing Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea, I was afflicted with those bittersweet post-book blues, hooked on her gilded descriptions and luxurious world-building. In a state of literary withdrawal, I purchased The Night Circus but sadly became too preoccupied by other obligations to finish it then and there. Now with more time on my hands, I restarted the read, devouring the book in about two days and again wanting more. I was skeptical that this book would live up to her other work, or technically the opposite as this was published first, and it nearly did. While there are a lot of similarities in the pace of the plot and other various details, they both pull you into their worlds and give a story lover the ode they desiderate for.