Just Can't

                                                       Hello, My Dark & Different Readers

Happy May. So, what are you reading this month that's Dark or Different? I tried to read Circus Of the Dead By Kimberly Loth. This was a young adult book, no less. it should have been an adult book for the situations in this book. It's about a girl named Callie who is around sixteen. she's sent off to stay with an uncle for the summer, who works for the circus of the dead. This circus offers strange attractions like being bitten by a snake, and other various acts that bring people close to death. Behind all these attractions and people is a reason for the circus being there.  Callie's not sure why her mother sent her to work with her uncle. But she goes along with the plan to this spooky circus in Louisiana in the swamp lands. There is no way of getting to civilization unless you take a boat back and forth. Which, by the way, is cursed and run by the ring master.

The whole story is about Callie, who's a little too naive, and how she meets workers of the circus who are living, and others who happen to be ghosts. The whole store is just crazy. The ringmaster has a crush on her, and he's about 20-something is a mystery within himself. Then there's a seventeen-year-old gangster ghost she meets that's questionable as well. I couldn't take her being so young, and everything was her first, like a kiss, and her not knowing anything but yet she was feisty. The character is too confusing, along with the story. To me I just couldn't see an old twenty-something going after a sixteen-year-old. You read it could be me, maybe you have another way to see this story. Good luck  

                                                 Happy Dark & Different Reading