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I'm not going to lie this book was a huge disappointment to me. I was expecting a competition to the death. Instead, what I got was slowly drawn out story of two people who were "raised" by insane father figures who "taught them" how to compete against each other. Except there was no real teaching much it was more here is what you need to do, now go and figure it out how to make it happen. In fact for the majority of the book the two didn't even know who there competitor was or that they had been working with them this whole time. Because of that fact there was no real competition between the two, it was just them making things to attempt to outshine the other one, and then to try to show the other one that they loved them.
I think what frustrated me the most about this book was the pacing, for the majority of the book everything was so slow in happening until the end and then it all seemed a little bit rushed.
If I disliked so much of it than why am I giving it three stars? Well it's simple the background characters. I loved them and loved how they were trying to figure out why certain things were happening in the circus. I did get slightly confused on who was saying what at times though due to the fact that there were 15 characters in all and it was a switching POV in each chapter sometimes.
Maybe in a few years I'll reread this book and feel differently about it. In fact I would love if that happened because I really did want to love this book.
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