Enchantée (Enchantee) - Softcover

Trelease, Gita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250231965 ISBN 13: 9781250231963

Publisher: Flatiron Books, 2019

Synopsis

Love. Magic. Revolution...Enchantée is Gita Trelease's imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished magician desperate to provide for her beloved sister on the eve of the French Revolution.

"Deliciously addictive." --Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval
"A heady, sparkling dream of a book." --Margaret Rogerson, author of An Enchantment of Ravens
"An utterly beguiling spell." --Laura Sebastian, author of Ash Princess

Paris is a labryinth 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 younge 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 of magic--before Paris burns.

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Review

"Enchantée is an utterly beguiling spell that lingers long after the final page." --Laura Sebastian, New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess

"A heady, sparkling dream of a book. I tumbled head over heels into Enchantée's dark and sumptuous magical Paris and wanted to stay there forever. One of the best fantasies I've read in years." --Margaret Rogerson, author of An Enchantment of Ravens

"An intoxicating blend of opulence, magic, intrigue and romance. Gita Trelease deftly balances a spellbinding story of desperation and deceit on the precipice of the epic revolution that changed history. Camille's tale wrapped around me as entrancingly as her magical gown. J'étais enchantée par ce livre." --Alwyn Hamilton, author of Rebel of the Sands

"Deliciously addictive. Enchantée is a lit firework crackling with treacherous magic, decadent romance, and disguises that take on lives of their own. I adore this gorgeous book." --Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval

"Enchantée is truly enchanting: a sumptuous, slow burn of a book that builds to an exciting conclusion. This is a book to be savored: from the rich, detailed descriptions of Paris on the brink of revolution; to the witty repartee and tender romance; to the dark, dangerous thread of magic woven through this wonderfully vivid world that Gita Trelease has crafted. I didn't want it to end!" --Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood Rose Rebellion

About the Author

Born in Sweden to Indian and Swedish parents, Gita Trelease has lived in many 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. Along with her husband and son, Gita divides her time between a village in Massachusetts and the coast of Maine. Enchantée is her debut novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1250231965
• ISBN 13: 9781250231963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464