The Night Circus is the debut novel by Erin Morgenstern. Set at the turn of the 19th century, two master magicians make a wager on who can train the better student. They separately raise two children, training them for this mysterious contest. The arena is the magical night circus. This circus appears at night without… View more
Ignore the cover, this is one of the most entertaining books I’ve read in a long time! It’s an intricate, unpredictable, exciting fantasy adventure novel following master thief Locke Lamora and his gang of thieves, the Gentleman Bastards. Locke Lamora is an infamous thief in the metropolis his gang operates out of, relying on great… View more
The Magicians is the first book in a series by Lev Grossman about adolescents in a magical private academy called Brakebills. Sound familiar? The premise is similar to Harry Potter but that’s where the similarities end. This book feels like a much more “realistic” depiction of how teenagers would actually act in a poorly supervised… View more
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente is a retelling of a Russian folktale about the villain Koschei the Deathless and his cunning wife Marya Morevna. This is an old tale of obsession, betrayal, and war but Valente tells it against the backdrop of the Bolshevik Revolution and the later Siege of Leningrad to give it new… View more