And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Speaking of Juliet and her Romeo, the central characters of The Night Circus, Celia and her Marco, are pitted against each other in a magical duel, but ultimately fall in love. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. After a while, the nebulous nature of the illusionists' challenge puts a drag on the narrative, but all the elements come together beautifully at the book's climax. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. Erin Morgenstern writes with grace and flair and walks the fine line between the lyrical and the precious. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue.

The circus is best experienced firsthand, after all. It chronicles twenty years of the history of the circus in a series of vignettes, interspersed with a second-person tour through the circus itself. 'It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance,' Marco whispers as she passes by him in the ballroom, the deep green of his suit seeping across her gown like moss. “Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. THE NIGHT CIRCUS is a literary fantasy dusted with mystery.

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