PositiveHuffington PostThe book is engaging and magical, entrancing the reader every step of the way...creations such as a beautiful garden made entirely of non-melting ice, and a house of mirrors that shows you more than just distorted images of yourself, Morgenstern creates a circus of which one can only dream ... She tells the story of Celia and Marco, bound together by an oath made during their childhood. They are both opponents and lovers, and only later do they discover that their magic duel must end in the death of one of them ... Some might simply dismiss this perhaps as a frothy YA (Young Adult) love story or a piece of genre fiction...It is actually far from either.
