The time-traveling fashionista at the palace of Marie Antoinette
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While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, she finds that life in the palace is not all cake and couture.
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Ah, okay, reading this one so closely after the first one meant that a lot of the charm had worn off for me. I mean, it was cute. Wouldn't super recommend it to most adult readers–Louise's complete obliviousness to all known history gets a little grating (especially given that she's allegedly a 7th grader in “AP French”, which just seems like poor fact checking on the editor's behalf...) . These books WOULD be great for younger tween readers, though–very clean. Like, when Louise time travels back to Marie Antoinette's Versailles, she declines a glass of champagne because her mom would disapprove. And she almost kisses a boy but gets interrupted.
Oh, and I read this one in print and I really like the color illustrations of all the dresses! (I read the other one in ebook and it had b&w illustrations that weren't as pretty.) There's also limited historical information in the form of a little timeline and a chapter where Louise gets back to the future and reads about Marie Antoinette on Wikipedia.
And I do really like the series' insistence that being interested in fashion isn't just a silly girl thing. It's serious business (that might possibly lead to time travel).
