Laboriously long, confusingly strung together, and a mostly good idea, delivered badly. Too much description of the circus and how amazing everything is. Like the author loved the idea of all this and then just wrote, wrote and then wrote some more to deliver a plot that wove through it.
I could not garner much empathy for the protagonists, and by the end the ridiculous set up of the "game" was so diluted and esoteric that it held no interest and no stakes in anyone winning or losing.
Good idea, just could have been so much shorter, tighter and less worshipful of a concept.
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