Gita trelease enchantee5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() She saves him from plunging to his death by grabbing hold of the gondola of his hot air balloon. ![]() Early on in the novel, Camille, the twenty-one year old woman whose dangerous tip into poverty and despair motivates the plot, meets an unusual boy in the most unusual of circumstances. She uses rich language to bring alive this world that is exists a few degrees away from reality. Trelease does a good job making this fantastical element believable and exciting. Yet, this familiar court of Marie Antoinette, of the storming of the Bastille, of carriages and gowns, fabulous hats and ludicrous royal diversions has a new, sinister thread running through it: magic, that can be accessed only through collecting sorrow and worse. She places her reader in the known historical world-quite vividly from the perspectives of both aristocrats and the poor. Set in 1789 in Paris and Versailles, Enchantée mixes the French revolution, a well-developed female main character, and magic to charm readers in this historical fantasy. ![]()
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