The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern • 2011
Devastation Rating
love loss literary fiction
Our Take
Two magicians trained since childhood to compete in a contest whose rules they don't understand, whose stakes they don't learn until it is too late. Morgenstern writes enchantment with such precision that the tragedy underneath it arrives like cold water. Beautiful and doomed, which turns out to be the same thing.
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