The Night Circus
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.
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So vivid and so enchanting! I can still see so many elements of the circus so clearly in my mind, even the dreamlike elements that can never be completely concrete. The circus is everything we want to believe is possible, even though we can't quite believe it when we see it!
I’m calling it. It’s a DNF. No one is more disappointed than me. Clearly I’m an outlier here, but really.. did I read the same book as everyone else? I honestly do enjoy purple prose. Give me all the flowery writing. But there’s gotta be a plot. Maybe this had…. Inklings of a plot? The circus. The dinners. The magicians. I honestly could not have cared less. I really was looking forward to reading this one so it pains me to have hated it so much.
I enjoyed this book but it is the most unusual book I have read in a long time. I would think it would appeal to fans of magical realism.
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