I needed a little magic in my life. I checked out the audio book of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and was delighted to hear Jim Dale (of the Harry Potter audio books) as narrator.
The Night Circus is the venue where twp men pit their respective protegee against each other to prove whose style of magic is better. It is set in the “real world” so the magic is seen a illusion or trickery by those who attend the circus. The 2 protegees fall in love and have to resolve how to end the game while both staying alive.
This is a richly woven story with fanciful descriptions of the circus “acts” and detailed character development.
The author notes that she was reading Stephen King at age 12 and J.K. Rowling at age 21. Those two influences were evident in this tale.
