Finished reading The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus by Alanna McFall


Luckily for me I've had a fairly quiet weekend and start to my week. So I've taken advantage of that by finishing one of the books I requested on Netgalley.

 I have just finished The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus by Alanna McFall. I loved the book, it was a very interesting premise and I really liked the characters particulary Cyndricka.
I won't go to much into the details as I don't want to give any spoliers to this book, as I do want this blog of mine to be spolier free.
Honestly it was the description of the book that first drew my attention to it. As the description states ‘Chelsea is determined to make it to her brother’s wedding. And she’s not going to let the fact that she’s been dead for two years stop her. 
Joining with her mime friend from a New York City park and her ghostly mentor with forty years of afterlife under her belt, the three women set out on foot for San Francisco. Along the way, they are faced with joy, sorrow, and the haunting surprises of the open road. This humorous and lightly macabre journey explores relationships, personal burdens, and what it means to keep moving, even when your heartbeat has stopped‘.


Initially I wasn’t sure what to make of a book with a dead protagonist especially as we only get to meet the living Chelsea in the prologue.
However I enjoyed this book immensely. My favourite chapter was Chapter 3 mainly because I absolutely loved the interaction between the dead residents of New York and the mime Cyndricka. The interplay between the living mime and the dead was just lovely. The author has blurred the line, creating a dichotomy of worlds. The mime is able to see and indeed interact with the dead, giving two performances in Central Park. One for the benefit of the living and one for the dead at the same time.
This book was unlike anything I'd read before and I would heartily recommend it.

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