All That Glitters
Ratings8
Average rating3.3
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Ratings8
Average rating3.3
Originally published as Enchantée, All That Glitters is Gita Trelease’s debut fantasy about an orphaned girl who uses dark magic to save her sister and herself is “a soaring success” (NPR)! Paris is a labyrinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren’t... When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine they need. But when the coins won’t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family’s savings, Camille pursues a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Using dark magic forbidden by her mother, Camille transforms herself into a baroness and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for magic. As she struggles to reconcile her resentment of the rich with the allure of glamour and excess, Camille meets a handsome young inventor, and begins to believe that love and liberty may both be possible. But magic has its costs, and soon Camille loses control of her secrets. And when revolution erupts, Camille must choose—love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality or magic—before Paris burns.
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2 primary booksEnchantée is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Gita Trelease.
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I hadn't read a true fantasy with magic in a long time, and was excited to find this fantasy mixed with historical fiction on my bookshelves.
I loved it from the beginning. The romance of France and the reality of the revolution, the double life Camille lives between Paris and Versailles, and the beauty of her friendships and romance alike.
Enchantee has a different kind of magic, and draws you in with every page. With the reality of the times, with revolution, resistance, and sickness, it reveals how easy the aristocrats had it-how they could afford to gamble away their problems.
Magic is hidden in a world full of tradition, and it's fascinating to read this interpretation.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and can't wait for the sequel.
I kept waiting for this novel to get really good and it just....never quite got there.
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DNF @ pg120
Life is hard enough in 18th-century France, and few know that better than Camille, who's been forced to take care of her younger sister and older, alcoholic brother when their parents pass from smallpox. She uses small magics to convert scraps into coins, but they're barely making ends meet when Camille finally decides to explore a side of magic her mother always warned her away from — a type of ‘la magie' that can change her very appearance, and win her a ticket into Louis XVI's palace in search of riches and safety.
unique
fresh
Enchantée.
la magie
Little by little, magic was erasing her. Sometimes she felt it might kill her.
She hated la magie ordinaire, but it was all she had.
quality of writing
beautiful
too
“What else is there to do with a life than spend it?”
Enchantée
this book is simply too long.
Though she'd tried so hard to hold it all, in the end it ran away like water through her fingers. Nothing stayed.
Enchantée
‘me, not you'
fully
reread this at a later date
All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
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