Telegraph Best Children’s and YA Book of the Year So Far Refinery 29’s Best YA Fantasy Book Series to Get Lost In 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.ī Recommended Fantasy Novel to Add Some Magic to Your Springīarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pickīarnes & Noble 100 Books of Summer for Teens & YA And when revolution erupts, Camille must choose―love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality or magic―before Paris burns. 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.īut magic has its costs, and soon Camille loses control of her secrets. 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.

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. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine they need. When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Paris is a labyrinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Gita Trelease’s debut fantasy about an orphaned girl who uses dark magic to save her sister and herself from ruin is “a soaring success” (NPR)!

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