It’s compelling and brilliant, and made me cry on a public street. ‘This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life. The First Bright Thing 23 copies, 1 review. I cannot recommend picking up a ticket for Windy Van Hooten’s Circus of the Fantasticals highly enough’ JR Dawson, author of The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition, on LibraryThing. Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus, Caraval and The Greatest Showman. One with tents as black as midnight, whose leader has dark powers and even darker ambitions. As they perform, they hope to leave the world brighter than they found it, creating a new home for magicians and outcasts.īut another war looms on the horizon, and another circus follows the Fantasticals. Together, as time-traveller, healer and seer, they tour the States with their fellow Sparks. Now it’s 1926, and Rin runs the Circus of the Fantasticals with her wife Odette, and friend Mauve. Step right up to Windy Van Hooten’s Circus of the Fantasticals, and meet The Ringmaster, The Trapeze Artist and The Nightingale – three marginalised women creating a haven for those who are lost.Īfter World War I, a select few – known as Sparks – woke up with frightening magical abilities. If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?
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