Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2011.
The Night Circus begins with a mystery. We meet two children bound together through magic, but not meeting, who must participate in a series of competitions similar to a game of chess but played with magic. Both are illusionists, trained since childhood and both possessing real magical abilities. The contest will be played throughout their lives, they have no rules, and neither have any idea how one wins. The sponsors of the illusionists, one the father of the girl, the other who took the orphan boy in, create through great lengths a circus as the arena for which the competition will take place. The circus arrives at various locations without announcement, and disappears without warning. It opens at midnight, and has a magical decor of only black and white. Much of the book is told through several intertwined characters who are also involved with the circus and who individually mold the atmosphere. The two young rivals play out their magical contest at The Night Circus, soon intertwining love, magic, joy and heartbreak.
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