Enchantée

· Pan Macmillan
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A compellingly beautiful tale of magic, intrigue and deception, set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Paris on the cusp of revolution.

Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries – and magicians . . .
When seventeen-year-old Camille is left orphaned, she has to provide for her frail sister and her volatile brother. In desperation, she survives by using the petty magic she learnt from her mother. But when her brother disappears Camille decides to pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Using dark magic Camille transforms herself into the ‘Baroness de la Fontaine‘ and presents herself at the court of Versaille, where she soon finds herself swept up in a dizzying life of riches, finery and suitors. But Camille’s resentment of the rich is at odds with the allure of their glamour and excess, and she soon discovers that she’s not the only one leading a double life . . .

Enchantée is a compelling historical fantasy and is Gita Trelease's debut novel.

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2.0
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Aditi Nichani
March 20, 2019
I’ve been reading this book for WEEKS now and despite finishing it yesterday, I honestly don’t know what I read. I was promised a glittering fantasy novel set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and a poor girl fighting against the aristocracy with the help of forbidden magic. Instead I got a 400+ page trove on gambling addiction, cheating while gambling through magic and a cast of characters that were honestly not well developed at all. In A Nutshell: This book could have been so much more, but it failed on all counts. MY (MORE ELABORATE) THOUGHTS: 1. I AM DISAPPOINTED. I honestly thought this book would be a brilliant fantasy novel, especially after I fell in love with Roshani Chokshi’s The Gilded Wolves, set a century later in Paris but I found the characters in Enchantee irritating, the purpose of the novel lost by the half-mark and the plot flimsy at best. The main character’s logic as she threw herself into situations was so half-baked that I was actually SHAKING THE BOOK as I read it as a substitute to shaking her. 2. What started off as two sisters trying to make it out of poverty by using petty magic turned into a note on gambling addiction, a conspiracy that was kind of petty and not sinister because the plot of it was just so flimsy (AND THE READER DIDN’T EVEN REALLY LEARN ABOUT IT UNTIL THE LAST CHAPTER) and magic that was said to have consequences… but didn’t at the end of it all. 3. I also felt like this book didn’t fully use the potential of being in the French Revolution. I was expecting something more with Camille and Sophie – the sisters and two main characters in the book – specifically, becoming a part of the revolution as paupers with magic who see the aristocracy for what they really are but from having nothing at all, in the next chapter they magically HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO MOVE INTO A MUCH FANCIER NEIGHBOURHOOD, PAY THREE MONTHS RENT AND IT. WAS. JUST. SO. IRRITATING. Where did economics and logic go out of the window? 4. Let’s not forget that hot air ballooning and fundraising suddenly became a part of the novel?? I honestly did not understand it at all. 5. All in all, I wished this book was just… better.
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About the author

Born in Sweden to Indian and Swedish parents, Gita Trelease has lived in lots of places, including New York, Paris and a tiny town in central Italy. She attended Yale College and New York University, where she earned a Ph.D. in British literature. Before becoming a novelist, she taught classes on writing and fairy tales – some of which have seeped into this story. Along with her husband and son, Gita divides her time between an old village in Massachusetts and the coast of Maine, where she’s still searching for a secret portal that will take her back to Versailles. Enchantée is Gita's debut novel.

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