Collision: Arena of the Lost

“Coliseum. The Lost Arena” is the first book of Marina Yasinskaya’s new trilogy about a sinister magical circus. From the author of the exciting cycle “Avioners”!

Kristina lives in the most dreary city in the world—a real hole where nothing ever happens. And of course she herself is completely ordinary. Ahead of her is the final school year—and still no big life achievements like others of her age have. But one day their little town is flooded with gaudy posters with gymnasts and clowns: the “Coliseum” circus has arrived. Only something is wrong with this circus. What’s happening inside those striped tents? What makes the performers’ otherworldly, magical show possible? How could it be that a living jaguar is released into the arena without any barriers, and that the white clown actually dissolves into the air?

Meanwhile, a double of Kristina looks out at her from mirrors—an ideal copy waiting for the right moment to steal Kristina’s life, which the girl so doesn’t like. Now Kristina herself ends up on the arena—at the Lost Arena—and must find her gift or die. Doppelgänger familiars, mysterious hostiliers, the Original Circus, the Lost Circus, jägger—Marina Yasinskaya creates an intriguing, distinctive world whose original mythology will delight lovers of magical universes.