"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not." 
 And that is all the synopsis I am going to provide in this review. I knew little about this book before reading it, and it made every climacteric episode and every exhilarate moment that much more shocking. And besides, far too much happens for me to even begin to recount here. 
 What I will say is that this book is mystical and magical and surreal and yet believable. It is breathtaking and sublime and transcendent and otherworldly. It is dazzling and scintillating and obscure and authentic. I could use every positive adjective in the dictionary and that would not even begin to recount the sagacity of this book! 
 I want to live in this world and I am not, nor will I ever, be ready to say goodbye to Celia and Marco. I am eternally keeping my fingers crossed that Erin Morgenstern will grace us with a prequel or a sequel or a spin-off or something! Please? Pretty please?