![]() ![]() ![]() (In fact, if you’re into circuses and the unusual and/or supernatural, you’ll love the podcast The Magnus Archives, which has a very creepy and weird circus as a main storyline, so give it a listen if so inclined.) It’s always had a dreamlike, slightly off-kilter sense to me, the striped tents, the calliope music, the death-defying feats of acrobats and contortionists swinging high above or twisting themselves into improbable shapes….and the ringmaster himself, whip in hand. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been fascinated with the circus. Norrell, in that sense of whimsical magic and a slightly odd world similar to our own, but one much more unusual, spellbinding and mystical.Ĭelia and Marco are the proverbial star-crossed lovers, though in this case, they are also opponents in a seemingly eternal game of spells and magic set in a mysterious circus. It actually put me in mind of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Such a marvelous universe, this alternate world of circuses and magic and love. I didn’t read this book until just a few months ago, and I could kick myself for not having devoured it sooner. ![]()
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