A.H trains his orphan ward with books in the ways of glyphs and sympathetic magic and illusory worlds that exist only in the mind of the beholder. Prospero teaches his daughter to hone her innate abilities by manipulating the physical world to ever more comprehensive and complicated extents.Ĭelia takes her position on the game board as the illusionist, using her craft to transform and maintain the circus and its occupants from the inside. The two sorcerers groom their young proteges, Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair, to proxy their rivalry with the circus acting as their battlegrounds. It was designed with all intents and motivation to fulfill the cruel fancies of the revered magicians Prospero the Enchanter and his cryptic adversary, Mr. Yet, even the brightest stars are cast in shadow for the circus exists to serve a darker purpose beyond pleasure and profit. Le Cirque des Rêves is bound by neither time nor predictability, it arrives without warning and leaves unnoticed just the same.

Officially known as Le Cirque des Rêves (The Circus of Dreams), this fantastical creation is host to a menagerie of curious pageantries and ethereal enigmas.įrom a thriving garden made entirely of ice, to a precipitous cloud maze or get lost simply step off a platform and drift gently to the floor. The Night Circus is a phantasmagorical fairy tale set near an ahistorical Victorian London in a traveling mystic circus that is open to the public from sunset to sunrise. Warning: This review contains minor spoilers for those yet to read the book. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.

The night circus