![]() With no other options, Jes become’s the bosses lackey – but when the requests start to threaten the future of the circus, Jes finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place. When the boss gets wind of the bounty on Jes’s head, he makes him an offer: do everything I tell you to, or face a return to a life of torture. Successfully picking up employment at the local circus, everything seems set for Jes to have the relaxed, family life he’s always dreamed of – until he catches the attention of the moon’s crime boss. On the run from those who want to experiment on his gravity powers, Jes hides in the last place anyone would expect an asexual fugitive to be: the pleasure moon. There are a lot of positives, but the last page doesn’t leave the reader feeling satisfied. ![]() ![]() I admire what the novel is trying to do, but it doesn’t quite succeed in melding those two halves together, giving it an increasingly disjointed feel as it progresses. Khan Wong’s debut, it’s part low-key found family sci-fi in the vein of Becky Chambers, and part a darker narrative about trauma, exploitation, and crime syndicates. ‘The Circus Infinite’ is a challenging book to review. ![]()
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