Read it in my bookclub recently, and we all disliked it [I really disliked it, had to force myself to read it.]

I don't like books with circuses, clowns etc in anyway, so I started with a prejudice...

Like wading through a sticky sea of sugary, sickly frosting. Too much description, too elaborate, 1-dimensional boring characters, insta-love, anti-climatic ending, I could go on but you get the idea. A lot of people like it though, so that's fine. Just don't ask me to read it again, I'd rather stick pins in my eyeballs.