Night Circus- Introduction (Anticipation)

The book opens with a short few pages written in second-person, describing your confusion when the circus arrives one day without warning. Of course, you are bewildered, like the other people beginning to gather, especially because no one seems to know how or when it arrived.
One major thing about this book is the descriptions. Morgenstern doesn't shy away from painting lurid, bordering-on-extravagant pictures through her writing, and this has to do with the characters involved, but we'll come back to that in later chapters.
In this little preface, she describes the circus as a colorless mass of black-and-white striped tents and a clock that defies description in its complexity, all surrounded by a wrought-iron fence.
What is even more bewildering to both you and the crowd is the sign on the gated that reads:
                             "Opens at Nightfall
                                      Closes at Dawn"

The people around you ask questions no one among you can answer. For whatever reason, you can afford to stand outside the gates of this strange circus all day, waiting for nightfall, and so can the large mass of people around you.
After the sun goes down, popping sounds precede the appearance of little flickering lights, "as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies." The restless crowd grows quiet and still, enchanted.
More lights flicker to life along the top of the gates, revealing the words "Le Cirque des Rēves", which translates to "The Circus of Dreams".
For whatever reason, the circus is not called The Night Circus as the title suggests, but instead "The Circus of Dreams". It does make sense with the tone of this book but, still, a bit strange.
Finally, the gates unlock and open, seemingly without any hands pulling them, and you are invited in.
"Now the circus is open.
Now you may enter."

I found that these few pages are not the most accurate preview into the book, as the rest is written in neither second-person nor is it about you.
However, it very accurately describes what the circus is like, and what the experience is like for the outsiders. These little passages pop up often throughout the book, offering another glimpse of the circus, but the actual effect on the plot is minimal.

Thoughts so far? I plan to be more detailed and offer more of my opinion throughout the review, but I figured this made a good intro to both the book and my review of the book.
I'll try to have the first chapter out by Wednesday at the latest, but no promises.