{"id":791,"date":"2015-12-05T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2022-03-30T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:36:32","slug":"book-review-the-night-circus-erin-morgenstern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/book-review-the-night-circus-erin-morgenstern\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Night Circus <\/em> by Erin Morgenstern is a story of magic, romance and professional rivalry set in early 19th<\/sup> century in a mysterious circus tent that arrives without warning in fields around the world, between the hours of dusk and dawn. Hidden amidst the enchantments, unknown even to the residents of the circus, are\u00a0two rival magicians, long dead, but living through a war that might lead to death or life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A book with such a gorgeous cover is a tempting thing on the shelf. \u201cPeople see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.\u201d<\/em>. Here, it is splendid black and white d\u00e9cor with splashes of red around. Le Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams) is a maze of tents containing enchantments that surprise your wildest imagination – a fire-eater who sculpts the flames in her bare hands, a greenhouse made entirely of ice, down to the last flower petal; a pool of human tears that transmits memories and poems that run down the trunks of trees, to name a few. The circus appears at midnight and disappears by dawn, in different regions, masqueraded as a coal truck and holds magic that has the audacity to challenge the notions about circus.Review of The Night Circus<\/h2>\n
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