He is an addict, and she hates him for it. As the spheres of her life begin to collide, all of her secrets are at risk, and herein lies the emotional heft of Enchant ée.Īt the start, Camille looks at Alain with disgust as he stumbles in drunk, threatening to ruin his sisters with his gambling debts. Nor did she imagine falling in love with a handsome aeronaut, who flies her over Paris in his balloon and shares her revolutionary ideals. She didn't count on growing to care for her new aristocratic friends and learning that some of them can also wield magic. To make matters worse, Alain's debts have come due, and Camille realizes that in order to escape his spiral of addiction and violence, she must try a new kind of magic.īook Reviews Getting Too Old For Narnia In 'Light Between Worlds' She learned la magie from her mother, who was an aristocrat before marrying her printer father, and as far as she knows, it's a talent that runs only in their family.īut magic comes at a cost, making her weak and exhausted, and with Alain's gambling and drinking, there's little hope that Camille will ever be able to provide a better life for herself and Sophie. Her mother and father are dead, and she's trying her hardest to provide for her younger sister, Sophie, and their wastrel brother, Alain, by using la magie ordinaire to transform odds and ends into coins that last just long enough to pay for a loaf of bread. What do I long for in a historical fantasy? Give me the tangled streets of late eighteenth century Paris, the golden halls of Versailles, the rustling of silk skirts, the clang of dueling swords, the snap of a deck of cards being shuffled - all served with a delicious soupçon of magic and a baited breath as la Révolution bears down upon noble and commoner alike.Ĭamille is resourceful but unlucky. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.

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