Beauty builds Le Cirque des Reves

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

     Night Circus is a difficult book to talk about, a difficult book to describe.  It is a book that is like nothing else out there.  I have tried to explain it to several people and often come up short.  It is a story of a magical competition where two young magicians must battle to the death.  There can only be one winner.  There are no wands, no good against evil, no one you want to win or lose.  Although Celia and Marco's story is a compelling one the real star is Morgenstern herself.  Not since the pages of Harry Potter have I read a world that I could see so clearly in my mind.  She builds piece by piece, word by word Le Cirque des Reves, a circus like none you could ever imagine.  If this were a real place I would book a flight.  She is the architect of beauty, imagination and the characters that lie within the pages.  They mesh so well that you forget you aren't actually there, you forget you are reading a book, and that is the real magic.  I warn you, don't put this book down for too long for if you do small pieces drop away from the amazing architecture set before you, you lose some of the magic.  This is truly a beautifully written book and it is a place you want to escape to.