A lush and imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished girl who must use magic to impersonate an aristocrat in Versailles to provide for her sister as her own political awakening forces her to choose sides in the French Revolution."Deliciously addictiveEI adore this gorgeous book."--Stephanie Garber, author of "Caraval."
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A lush and imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished girl who must use magic to impersonate an aristocrat in Versailles to provide for her sister as her own political awakening forces her to choose sides in the French Revolution."Deliciously addictiveEI adore this gorgeous book."--Stephanie Garber, author of "Caraval."
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Paris in the late 1700s, a city full of aristocrats, revolutionaries, inventors and... magicians!
Enchantee is a rare and delightful read; its historical fiction mingled with fantasy in a way that gives the story a real and grounded feel to it. Gita Trelease spins a beautifully written world which balances the sumptuous landscape of the court at Versailles with the gritty poverty of the streets of France with a revolution brewing. The world building reminded me a bit of The Belles - it has similar beautiful imagery with an element of a sinister undertone running underneath. I also liked the use of French words scattered throughout the narrative.
However, the book is trying to jam pack a lot of things in to the narrative - there's a love triangle, a dramatic villain with a dastardly plot, a political revolution, an exploration of a magic system and a rags to riches progression all of which is wrapped up in a stand-alone story. Although I loved and appreciated the fact that it's stand-alone, I felt that it perhaps would have been better explored in different stories (or letting some of them take the background) rather than trying to cram everything in. I also found the plot to be a little frustrating at times as most of the problems could have been solved by characters just revealing something important or telling the truth. I didn't feel like the stakes were really that high for a lot of important information that would have changed the outcome of many situations to be kept a secret. I also really didn't like Lazare - he didn't seem to be a fitting hero to match our feisty and interesting heroine.
Overall I enjoyed the world of Enchantee, I just felt it tried to be too much at once and needed a little paring down in its editing. Thank you to NetGalley & Pan Macmillan for a chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
