Review by Gwenda Bond The most surprising thing about Erin Morgenstern’s dazzling and rightfully anticipated debut novel, The Night Circus, is that it didn’t exist before now. Set at the turn of a nineteenth century recognizable but for the presence of magic, two shadowy rival magicians choose two contestants who will play out the latest incarnation of their long-running, ill-defined competition. Though Celia Bowen, daughter of Prospero the Enchanter, and Marco, adopted son of Mr. A.H. — also known as the man in the grey suit — are trained in magic throughout their childhoods, neither of them knows the rules […]
