The Night Circus is The Magical Fantasy You Never Saw Coming

The Night Circus

By Erin Morgenstern 

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Summary: 

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.

Book Review:

The Circus arrives without warning. I'd say the same about this book. It should have been something like 'Warning: might get addicted and emotionally attached.' 

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

The flow of the book is almost, dare I say, magical. No, I'm not kidding. I should not have enjoyed this book this much. But this book captured me. The writing style is so beautiful. Erin Morgenstern has mastered the art of storytelling. For the first time, I appreciated multiple POVs. The descriptions were so good I could imagine EVERYTHING. 

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

A forbidden love between magician enemies while building a circus bound to end in death? Who wouldn't want this? I finished this book in two days and immediately regretted finishing it so fast. I would give anything to read this book for the first time again. I remember reading this book in the dim light in the peace of raindrop sounds on my window, but I was so into the book that I never even noticed when the clouds parted and the sun slowly dipped down to the night sky. 

This book made me feel something I haven't felt in a long time. It made me remember my love for Fantasy again. And I'm pretty sure that it has morphed my personality to a mix of Celia's and Poppet's. 

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

It's been almost 4 days since I finished this book and I still can't put into words this feeling I felt at the ending. I still fail to determine if it was happy and sad. The only right word for it is...magical. 

That's it for now. If you need me, I'll be in my room trying to break things and put them back together or reading the stars.

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