The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I've seen The Prestige. I've seen The Illusionist. And I liked them both. So I figured, based on the book jacket - which seemed so very, very like those plot lines - I would like this book, too.

I was wrong about it being like those movies. And I should know better, right?  Morgenstern has crafted a unique book that is magical and haunting and suspenseful. I was intrigued from the beginning when Celia is just a little girl growing up under her circus father and she is able to do what most girls cannot. Thus begins her life duel with another magician, Marco. It is a love story like no other, set in a time and place where in order to be the greatest, you must kill the one you love.