So I admit that including this one in my summer reading series is a little like cheating because this is a book Scott and I have been reading aloud together, but in my defense it
is part of my summer reading. I highly recommend Erin Morgenstern's
The Night Circus, a fun, magical escape read. My husband actually picked it out for us to read together (he rarely reads fiction) and described it to me as a book about two dueling magicians and a circus that appears mysteriously in different towns and cities across the world; one day it's there, the next it could possibly disappear without notice. I was hooked and I hope you think it sounds magical too, because it is! It's been so much fun to read.
The plot and character development keeps your attention, you can't wait to see where it takes you next, and you're traveling everywhere from London, Paris, Munich, and Cairo. The descriptions of the circus acts, costumes, and enchantments are brilliant and unique. As
one reviewer describes it,
"It is intensely visual . . . Morgenstern paints precise, evocative and visually lush scenes within the tents of her fictional circus. Reading the novel is, in this respect, more like watching a film in the making – not an ordinary film, however, but an imaginative collaboration between writer and reader." Though I wouldn't quite compare it to the genius world of Harry Potter, the world Morgenstern creates is similarly magical and dangerous (minus the monsters and creatures) but I'm sad to see that
Twilight fans are lumped in as expected fan readers
here. Whatever you might hear, from what I can tell about
Twilight,
The Night Circus is vastly different!
There are several different covers of the book, but each one is really spectacular, and they give you a feel for what awaits inside. I think it would certainly be fun to see it made into a movie; my bets are that it will be before we know it, and Scott and I have had a time trying to decide who would be best to play the various characters. So if you're looking to get away this summer we highly recommend Erin Morgenstern's
The Night Circus!
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