This does lead me though to the fact that once I had gained my footing I was able to guess some of the twists. I won’t spoil too much more but needless to say, the book gets even crazier than what I have already told you about. Now I am skipping around a lot but as I’m typing this, I realize that putting what happens into words doesn’t really do the book justice and it is kinda crazy to write it all out. This leads to why Lara’s fiancee disappeared. Cecile’s sister ends up killing the painter in a fit of rage but Cecile is already pregnant.
Cecile ends up falling in love with a painter that her sister was also enchanted into loving him. When Lara actually goes to visit the circus, it became a lot more grotesque and you can get the sense of how this is a circus from Hell. The circus was essentially a babysitting service for the girls. He was able to cast an illusion on them to make sure that they look more human-like, but in order to keep up the illusion, the sister must kill someone. They were conjoined twins but their father separated them. The book later goes on to explain that Cecile has a sister. This is also why Lara and her mother can work magic so easily. This is why there is so much magic mentioned in the book. Turns out Lara’s great great great grandfather is a demon overloader and Cecile is a half-demon/half-human. However, the book does mention demons so I figured that may have something to do with it. There is a lot of magic and the way things are described, I originally thought that it was a ghost circus because they make a big deal about how only the living can leave. So during this part of the book, you get a lot of information about the circus to which Cecile belonged. This brings us to the part about the painting of her great-great-grandmother (her name is Cecile) as well as Lara finding Cecile’s journals. Lara also starts to see a mysterious man who has eyes that look like a goat (turns out I was correct in the demon vibes I was getting) and he keeps alluding to the fact that he has information that Lara may find interesting. Any time Lara’s mom is mentioned, they normally point out that she doesn’t like to use her magic.
She talks about how her grandmother started raving about seeing a man and honestly I was getting demon/devil vibes just from how some things were described. This made my reader's senses tingle but I kept on. She then starts going into her family history and talking about how her great great grandmother was a good seamstress and an excellent horse-woman who started a circus after coming into some money. With the disappearance of Todd who is Lara’s fiancée, how everyone in town thinks that he was murdered or just stood her up, to the secret music track that Lara finds when she plays a certain record backward the mystery element is really played up here. This book starts off more as a mystery than a book about a magic circus.
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