“The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern

Reading this book is like walking through a wondrous enchantment –while you know it can’t be true, it nonetheless it draws you in, and holds you in a state of breathless anticipation. The circus itself is only the setting, the canvas on which is drawn a host of fantastical yet believable characters involved in a plot of intrigue and magic, of a duel played over decades, and of star- crossed lovers inextricably bound to the circus, to the challenge, and to each other.