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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
At the turn of the twentieth century, a girl named Celia who has psychokinetic powers grows up in the circus run by her father where she competes against a rival young magician, Marco, in a battle of magic that will unknowingly kill one of them. But when Celia and Marco fall in love, the fate of the circus and its performers rests in their hands.
Review from Booklist Reviews:
This big and-no, not bulky-compelling first novel ushers in a menacing tone with its first sentence: The circus arrives without warning. Why would a circus arrive so quietly in town, and why would anyone need warning about this particular one? The time span here is 30 years, from 1873 to 1903, and the settings range from America to Europe. To a famous magician is delivered a little girl who, as it turns out, is his child, and fortunately for his future, she is possessed of magical powers. As it also happens, this magician has an archrival, who, in the face of the first magician's jackpot in the form of his little girl, seeks a young person for him to train to rival her. What the two magicians did not anticipate, as the years pass and the two young people, the girl and the boy whom the second magician found, are honed in their specialty for performance's sake and to outplay the other one, is that the young persons, when of an age, would meet and, surprising or not to the reader, fall in love. How will their destiny play out now? With appeal for readers not particularly geared to fantasy but who plainly enjoy an unusual and well-drawn story, this one will make a good crossover suggestion.
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