Thursday, February 7, 2013

Kirkus Style Review

Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
September 13, 2011
ISBN:  9780385534635
387 pages

The Night Circus is the mesmerizing, descriptive story, set in the late 1800’s, of a circus “battle-ground” that only appears at night where the ongoing struggle between two magicians takes place.  No one knows when or where the circus will appear, until it arrives.  The magicians, Celia and Marco, chosen at childhood and taught magic of very different flavors, find themselves pitted against each other, while the blossoming romance between them seems doomed.  Can these lovers discover a way to free themselves from the bonds of their battle?  Filled with beautiful yet somehow stark descriptions of magician-created wonders, this circus will seem to come alive with sights, scents, and sounds as you read this darkly dream-like first novel by Erin Morgenstern.

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