![]() ![]() ![]() "No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. The venue for the challenge is a mysterious circus, Le Cirque des Rêves (The Circus of Dreams). The challenge in a competition of magical skills and training, the nature and rules for which are – and will remain – entirely unclear. Hector Bowen, who performs as Prospero the Enchanter, pits his illegitimate daughter, Celia, who has a natural talent for magic, against Marco, the foundling protégé of the mysterious Alexander. The novel begins with a challenge between two aging – or perhaps ageless – magicians. One of those rare, wonderful, transcendent books that, upon finishing, you want to immediately start again. A book that makes the hair on your arms stand on end, and that has you picking up the phone or sending a text to tell everyone you know, "You have to read this." Occasionally, though, and all too rarely, you'll encounter a book that stops you in your tracks, a book the experience of which tears you open and leaves you gasping, a book that affects your head and your heart in equal measure. ![]()
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