Day #38 of the 50 Day Book Challenge
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shadowkatThis is Day #38 of 50 Day Book Challenge
The prompt is A Book with Magic.
I rather liked The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - it's about two magicians who are reared to engage in duel to the death, but fall in love along the way.
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
It's told in an odd manner or narrative style - where we are in the points of view of various people and not always the main characters. Kind of a Citizen Kane style? Where you are telling the story from side characters, such as a boy who visits the circus, or the teacher of one of the characters, then the protagonists, then their friends, etc. And it shifts between third person distant to third person close, etc. I found the style to be distancing at times somewhat similar to Neil Gaiman - whose style distances the reader and focus appears to be on world-building, but mileage may vary on that point.
It was optioned for a movie a while back but nothing has come of it. Most books that are optioned for films rarely make it to the screen.
The prompt is A Book with Magic.
I rather liked The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - it's about two magicians who are reared to engage in duel to the death, but fall in love along the way.
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
It's told in an odd manner or narrative style - where we are in the points of view of various people and not always the main characters. Kind of a Citizen Kane style? Where you are telling the story from side characters, such as a boy who visits the circus, or the teacher of one of the characters, then the protagonists, then their friends, etc. And it shifts between third person distant to third person close, etc. I found the style to be distancing at times somewhat similar to Neil Gaiman - whose style distances the reader and focus appears to be on world-building, but mileage may vary on that point.
It was optioned for a movie a while back but nothing has come of it. Most books that are optioned for films rarely make it to the screen.