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Belle Révolte

Linsey Miller (Goodreads Author)

3.53 · Rating details · 876 ratings · 356 reviews

From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes a standalone fantasy where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed.

Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady can ...more

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Nov 16, 2019 Linsey Miller added it · (Review from the author)

Hey friends,

This isn't a review. I just wanted to drop some thoughts and the content warnings here to make them more visible. If you have any questions about anything or would like to know specifics, feel free to ask.

Thank you for reading and have a great end of 2019!

-Linsey

BELLE RÉVOLTE COMMENTS & CONTENT WARNINGS

This book isn’t as dark as Mask of Shadows but there is an undercurrent of alienation that follows Emilie and Annette throughout it. The society in which they live operates within a b ...more

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Dec 24, 2019 Iris rated it it was amazing

Shelves: best-of-2019, read-in-2019, best-of-the-best, sapphics, 5-stars, lgbtqiap, emotional-pain, fantasy, girl-power, aspec-rep

This is out today, go read it y'all!!

I received this book from Sourcebooks Fire in exchange for an honest review.

This book meant the absolute world to me. Every time I think it I'm just filled with this intense love and emotion. I could flail about this book forever, I swear. It makes me so happy (except for when it's RIPPING MY HEART OUT).

Objectively speaking, this book is far from perfect. I think if this book hadn't hit me on so deeply personal a level, it would have been a solid four stars. ...more

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Feb 05, 2020 may ➹ rated it liked it

Shelves: 3-star, rep-lgbtqiap-ace-spec, arc, diverse, rep-lgbtqiap-author, fantasy, rep-lgbtqiap-wlw, pov-1st, pov-female, young-adult

I think it’s a sign when you can’t even make it past the first 6 pages of a book without getting annoyed and wanting to strangle a character

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Feb 25, 2020 Katie marked it as dnf

Dnf - for the time being! Made it to about 40% I think I might enjoy this more at a different time. I’m really not in the mood for it right now and feel like trying to force myself to finish it is putting me in a reading slump.

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Dec 13, 2019 rachel ☾ rated it liked it

Shelves: deserves-more-hype, fantasy, 3-star, coverporn, rep-queer, releases-2020

i barely made it through the first 60% but adored the last 40% so... not sure how i feel about this one yet

◯ Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Jan 01, 2020 Bethany rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-interested, lgbtq

Actual Rating: 4.5 stars

If you are looking for a fun standalone fantasy novel with well-developed characters and queer representation, check out Belle Revolte! The world and magic system are surprisingly complex and well-developed for a standalone novel and the plot accomplishes quite a lot in a short number of pages. This is sort of a Prince and the Pauper retelling with girls who switch lives to pursue their dreams, and thematic content that explores inequality and oppression in terms of wealt Actual Rating: 4.5 stars

If you are looking for a fun standalone fantasy novel with well-developed characters and queer representation, check out Belle Revolte! The world and magic system are surprisingly complex and well-developed for a standalone novel and the plot accomplishes quite a lot in a short number of pages. This is sort of a Prince and the Pauper retelling with girls who switch lives to pursue their dreams, and thematic content that explores inequality and oppression in terms of wealth, power, and gender.

Loosely based on revolutionary France, this book is set in a world of magic that is segregated into the daytime arts (including magical medicine and weaponry) and the nighttime arts (including illusions and scrying), and these segregations have traditionally been gendered as well. Women are expected to follow the less dangerous nighttime magic and men the daytime. But Emilie des Marais dreams of becoming a physician, despite the wishes of her wealthy and powerful mother. So instead of attending a prestigious finishing school, she convinces commoner Annette Boucher to take her place so she can pursue her dreams of medical training. The girls swap lives, explore their individual power, and eventually become entangled in a necessary but dangerous political revolution.

I really enjoyed this book and was impressed and how much the author accomplishes in a single book. The characters are interesting, the world and magic system are thoughtfully laid out, and there is a major focus on structural inequalities as they affect different groups of people. There is action, magic, political intrigue, friendship, and a bit of romance as well. I liked that the romance didn't take over as the main focal point of the plot with a larger emphasis on friendship. (And even the romances that do develop involve mutual respect and friendship)

In terms of queer representation, Annette is asexual, biromantic and we get some discussion of what that means. In this story, she develops a low-key romantic relationship with another girl and they have a lovely friendship as well. Emilie seems to be a bit fluid about her gender expression and falls for a trans boy. Their relationship is also just really lovely, with some good-hearted rivalry and banter.

There is quite a bit of violence in this book and it goes to some rather dark places in terms of exploitation and abuse of power, sometimes is horrifying and gruesome ways, but the ending is a positive one. My main complaint with this book is that while it is quite ambitious in the scope of the story it seeks to tell, it sometimes suffers from issues of pacing or glossing over things that could have been more developed. Parts of this dragged a bit and the pacing felt inconsistent because it didn't seems to follow a traditional three-act structure and we keep switching perspectives between Annette and Emilie. That said, I still really liked it and think it's worth picking up. And while it does read as a standalone, there is certainly space to tell more stories in this world! I received a copy of this book for review from the publisher. All opinions are my own.

CW include death, war violence, depictions of blood and gore, torture, magical murder, loss of a loved one. ...more

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Mar 15, 2020 Emily Duncan added it

i love linsey's brain. ...more

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Nov 24, 2019 Isabella rated it liked it · review of another edition

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a big thank u to FIREreads for sending me a copy of this book!!

we don't normally get a lot of stand alone fantasy books so I was really excited to read this one, especially when i heard it was about two girls (a princess and a peasant) switching lives. Yeah we've seen the trope before but i personally find it very entertaining :)

i love love LOVED the transgender & asexual representation!! it was such a lovely surprise, one that should definitely be seen more often in fantasy books. i like the ...more

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Apr 30, 2020 CW (The Quiet Pond) ✨ rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, diverse-shelf, has-lgbtqa-rep, fantasy, 2020, audiobook

Wow, what a unique story! I actually quite enjoyed this book, its story, its magic system, and its discourse on gender and rebellion.

- Follows Annette and Emilie, two characters from different social classes who swap lives so they can pursue their ambitions. For Emilie it is in the noonday arts (medicine and warfare) and for Annette, it is the midnight arts (divination and scrying). When the two discover a corrupted plot with war on the horizon, they work together to survive and rebel.
- I actual ...more

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Feb 11, 2020 Jesse bowtiesandbooks added it

I was gifted a copy of Belle Revolte from the publisher and was wildly excited to pick it up!
It's a YA Fantasy with heavy french influences (yes please) about two willful girls of differing backgrounds who switch places in order to follow their respective dreams. I loved that one of the girls was an aspiring surgeon as stories surrounding medicine/doctors/illness always fascinate me as do characters that can heal in some fashion.

Sadly, this book simply wasn't for me. The writing focused heavil ...more

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Jan 16, 2020 The Nerd Daily rated it really liked it

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Belle Révolte was an evocative and thought provoking tale of rebellion, magic, and love. The story follows two young women divided by class but are determined to change their futures. I don’t read many YA fantasies with complex magic systems and although this was sometimes slow, I found I appreciated Linsey Miller’s take on it. Drawing a connection from magic to healing was ingenious and I found her execution original. Many times we se Originally published on The Nerd Daily | Review by Laura Erne

Belle Révolte was an evocative and thought provoking tale of rebellion, magic, and love. The story follows two young women divided by class but are determined to change their futures. I don’t read many YA fantasies with complex magic systems and although this was sometimes slow, I found I appreciated Linsey Miller’s take on it. Drawing a connection from magic to healing was ingenious and I found her execution original. Many times we see characters with abilities that help them be stronger warriors and in here, that’s not the focus. I liked how Miller’s concept showcased the efforts people take to preserve life through healing rather than the fighting. But be warned, there are many scenes that are gory and quite vivid as well as a few deaths throughout. This is not a light and fluffy piece and it does seem to perhaps border between YA and adult fiction. This is the first book that I’ve read by Miller and I have fallen in love with her strong and effective writing so this will not be my last.

“My mother did not shackle me despite my last escape attempt. It didn’t matter—the corset, layers of satin and silk, and summer heat were chains enough. I was certain I would be the first young noble lady of Demeine to arrive at finishing school under the watchful eyes of two armed guards.”

I loved this opener! I could feel Emilie’s hatred for her noble life right from the beginning. It felt real and powerful. She is a girl that knows she can do better and doesn’t need to be stuck in her mother’s world. Relatable and very effective! From then on, I was engrossed in the plot. I wanted to know how Emilie was going to pursue the life she wanted and the stirring rebellion was the perfect, dark backdrop for her to figure it out. This set the mood and gave a very strong voice to this novel’s first main character.

“Illusions were, as far as I could tell, nothing but lies. My mother was a wonderful liar.”

I devoured Miller’s poetic and emotionally charged writing and I couldn’t wait to continue this story. The composition above reminded me of Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series, and the reason I loved that series so much was the beautiful poetic prose mixed with a dark, war torn world and we see that again in here. The contrast between the beauty of the words mixed with the darkness of the actual story creates this undeniable pull that keeps you hooked. I envy this writing style immensely and this combination is very effective.

“I ate dirt as a child.”

This was a striking, bold, and harsh statement that rivalled Emilie’s introduction which made it the perfect intro to Belle Révolte’s second main character, Annette. The drastic differences between these two only worked to increase the idea of class divide and having two characters representing each world equally made this a balanced story.

I loved many things in Belle Révolte but I didn’t like the constant flow of names from both perspectives because it was too hard to follow. Many characters had specific strengths in either the noonday arts or the midnight arts and it was slightly confusing to remember who could do what and who knew who. I think this happened because of the sheer amount of female characters on Annette’s side as well as the male characters on Emilie’s side that all seemed to have two and three titles each. It was an information overload. That being said, I also found a slight issue with the idea that’s very common with rebellion and that’s the idea of one name for all those associated. In here Miller used the name “Laurel” for the resistance but there were too many scenes where members were referred to by that same name, which made it difficult to know all the members of the group and what each of them were told and when. I couldn’t keep it all straight. I feel like this choice made Miller’s writing suffer because there’s only so much you can use to try and describe a scene when the same name is given to many, especially given a large operation.

Despite these minor setbacks, I really enjoyed Linsey Miller’s newest novel, Belle Révolte and I give it an 8 out of 10! I look forward to reading more from her and I will definitely check out her other series called Mask of Shadows. ...more

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Aug 11, 2020 Aoife rated it it was ok

Shelves: trans-characters, ya, library, magic-spells, sapphic, slytherin, ya-fantasy, diverse

2.5 stars.

In the land of Demeine, people have the ability to perform magic - some use their magic to create beautiful illusions, to divine the future and scry on others. Other magic can be used in battle - for strength and for healing. But all magic takes a toll, and eventually a body is worn down. So nobles use hacks - a peasant who can also use magic, and who agrees to work and lend their strength and magic for as long as their body holds out.

Emilie des Marais is on her way to an elite school 2.5 stars.

In the land of Demeine, people have the ability to perform magic - some use their magic to create beautiful illusions, to divine the future and scry on others. Other magic can be used in battle - for strength and for healing. But all magic takes a toll, and eventually a body is worn down. So nobles use hacks - a peasant who can also use magic, and who agrees to work and lend their strength and magic for as long as their body holds out.

Emilie des Marais is on her way to an elite school to learn the art of illusion and divination but she desperately wants to be a physician - even if it means being a hack. When she meets Annette, the two swap places and begin their new lives. But revolution is brewing in Demeine, and war is on the horizon with their neighbours. Will the girls be able to keep their secret, and use their magic to save their country - while also bringing down a corrupt king?

I hoped to love this, and there were some parts I did. I think the magic is really interesting in this book, and how it's used and channeled. I love the girl power going on in this book, and I really appreciate how Linsey Miller always makes sure to have a vast array of diversity in her characters (characters' appearances are explicitly stated so we know if they are POC, one main character appears to be asexual, another describes her relationship with herself and her identity as possibly non-binary, a side character/love interest is a trans man). While I don't believe some of this is from an own voices perspective (though I'm not 100% sure), I think it's still important to appreciate this from any author.

I don't know why all the names and titles in this were French, and when I learned the king was called King Henry XII, I was really confused for a bit wondering if this wasn't fantasy but some kind of historical fantasy and we actually were in France. There's a lot of names and titles thrown around in the book too and sometimes I was confused about who everyone was.

There's a lot of convenience in this book too and everything just happens so easily. It's only in the first chapter that Emilie and Annette meet and swap lives - it's literally like "You wanna be me?", "Okay" and that's that. There was no build up except Emilie talking about how much she hated her mother (who actually wasn't a bad person at all?).

The magic in this while intriguing was messy. I don't think we ever got a good idea of how they actually learned and refined their magic - the only classes we seemed to actually see in the book were mathematics and history? Everyone just seemed to know how to do it and what exactly to do.

The war that ended up happening, I don't know why it happened. All of a sudden everyone was at war? I was confused.

The Laurels thing seemed a bit stupid. I liked the idea of it, and I liked the actual name itself but Emilie and Annette both basically walking up a Laurel and becoming part of the group without any questioning was really sketchy.

I think as well none of these characters actually seemed real to me. And when I read a character, I like them to take shape in front of me. I want it to feel like they are sitting beside me, telling me their story. And I didn't feel this with this book. I found it hard to picture anyone and everyone's relationships didn't seem to really have anything in them. I don't think any characters had real chemistry - even friendships like Annette, Coline, and Isabella. I liked Charles and Emilie but there was no real banter between them and I feel like it was really forced.

The only real relationship I liked and felt something between was Laurence and Esthel and we literally only had about 3 seconds of page time with them. But THAT's the true love story I wanted and one we didn't get.

There was nothing really wrong with this book. Linsey Miller is able to write, and she does create worlds and magic that seem to have thought in them. Maybe it's just refining them that's the problem. I just didn't totally get on with this book, and I'm not 100% sure why. And that makes me sad.
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Feb 04, 2020 kav (xreadingsolacex) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-fantasy, queer-fiction, sapphic-fiction, bad-bitches, historical-fiction, non-cis-rep

"I want to be the best. I want everyone who told me I couldn't be to know they were wrong. I want to save people and help people and be something to someone, so it doesn't all feel like nothing. I have to be the best."

Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller is a young-adult high fantasy novel about two teenage girls, Annette Boucher and Emilie des Marais who swap lives for a chance to achieve their dreams, though the crumbling structure of their kingdom may make that goal even harder.

Belle Re ...more

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Apr 21, 2020 Aly (In Wonderland) added it

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, arc, lgbt

Reading this book was the literal embodiment of excitedly thinking about eating leftovers all day only to finally get home and find out someone else has eaten those leftovers. I am left bereft, confused and wholeheartedly disappointed.

There was absolutely no tension, no build up and anything that was interesting or could have caused a teensy bit of conflict was immediately resolved, brushed under the rug and forgotten about. I don't do well when you're given four possible plot twists and none of ...more

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Jun 05, 2020 Acqua marked it as dnf-lost-interest

DNF 15%

This is a perfectly fine YA fantasy with somewhat infodump-y tendencies and I know it would be around three stars if I actually finished it, so I'm not going to (exam month in 2020 = no time), but I think I would have liked it a few years ago ...more

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Mar 01, 2020 Caidyn (he/him/his) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, queer-reads, young-adult-fiction

2.5/5

CW: deception, death/war, scarring, medical neglect/abuse, and violence

I wanted to like this book more. Especially when I found out that one of the MCs, Annette, is a biromantic ace and there were on the page conversations regarding sexuality and the preconceptions about relationships (which I included in my updates). And an ace who knows who she is and, despite her family not being understanding/accepting of it, she is who she is and isn't going to let someone stop her from living how she ...more

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Jan 16, 2020 Justine marked it as dnf

Shelves: read-in-2020, netgalley, fantasy

DNF at 20%

Sadly, this one just wasn't working for me! The concept sounded super fun and I thought it could be a good one to snuggle up with and tear through in a weekend, but I just couldn't get into it.

The pacing was completely off -- within the first 5%, Emilie is running out of her carriage and proposing to swap places with a complete and total stranger who looks like her so she can study medicine. It all happens so fast it was just completely unbelievable -- I felt like I was missing a big c ...more

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May 05, 2020 Eva B. rated it it was amazing

Shelves: badass-ladies, best-romances, eat-his-heart-in-the-marketplace, metaphorical-tears-were-shed, friendships-are-magic, queer-rep-leads, i-own-this, favorites, 5-star

Update: fuck it, I'm giving this 5 stars, I enjoyed it a ton and am still thinking of it.

This is a hard book to rate because while I didn't care for the earlier parts set with Annette at the school, I LOVED Emilie, Charles, Madeline, and especially Laurence. I also loved Coline, Yvonne, and Estrel, and grew to like Annette. Some things about the magic system confused me, but it was still very entertaining. I really loved both romances, and the diversity as well!
I think this is a rare case of a ...more

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Mar 03, 2020 Cindee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: march-2020-tbr

I loved this book so much I loved the message and all of the great romance that is held within this book. I loved all of the characters so much especially Annette and Emelie and their love interests Yvvone and Charles and many of the other characters. I loved these characters for wanting to do what they want and not what their station in life tells them they can do. I loved how hard they fought for what they believed in and I am really glad that everything ended well. I loved the romances in the ...more

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Dec 31, 2019 USOM rated it really liked it · review of another edition

(Disclaimer: I received this book from Netgalley. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)

Belle Révolte is a book about girls changing the world, following their dreams, and fighting a system of exploitation. It's a book full of hope, sacrifice, and power. Belle Révolte is a book about ambition. The ways society wants to limit what we can do because of our gender or economic status. It features Annette, a biromantic ace spectrum magical MC, a talented girl who yearns to b ...more

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Jan 29, 2020 amanda rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley-reviews

3.5

Belle Revolte.

Ahhh, doesn’t the title absolutely slide off your tongue and quiver against your lips? The cover is gorgeous as well. It looks like ice cream. These two combined were what made me want to snatch this book up and even though I’ve been burned before by that deadly combo, I was willing to take the risk for this.

It was worth it in the end.

I am not a big fantasy fan which is funny because I play quite a few fantasy games. I grew up with Japanese role playing games. Final fantasy and ...more

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Feb 10, 2020 Sheena ☆ Oh, the Sheenanigans! rated it it was ok

Shelves: the-struggle-is-real, royalty, romance, young-adult, standalone, lgbtqia, magic, friends-to-lovers, dropped, arcs-ebook

This gave off "Reverie" vibes and I wasn't feeling it. There were just too many similarities and I just had a hard time engrossing myself in the read. Maybe it's my reading slump or just the novel itself, I just couldn't connect with lead characters Emilie and Annette nor the storyline despite loving the LGBT concept. It's not you, it's me I swear!

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Jan 18, 2020 iam rated it really liked it

Shelves: gays-with-dragons, lgbtqia, arc, bisexual, sapphic, asexual-spectrum, ya

Belle Révolte puts an intriguing twist to its french-revolution-vibe fantasy setting, featuring queer teens switching identities, going to magical schools, fighting against oppression and changing the course of a war.

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Content warnings include: extremely graphic injuries and gore due to protagonist being a physician at the front during war, violence, execution and death, class difference featuring oppression, mistreatment and abuse of lower class; mentions a ...more

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Feb 15, 2020 thi rated it liked it

3.25/5
- I love standalone fantasy I really do but damn do some aspects feel rushed
- two protags in stories that don’t quite intersect often can be hard to follow (aka I found it hard to follow)
- overall I did like the story but I didn’t *love* the execution nor the writing style

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Dec 19, 2019 Nenia ✨️ I yeet my books back and forth ✨️ Campbell marked it as wishlist

Shelves: ya-ya-land, netgalley

This sounds a lot like THE BELLES

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Feb 10, 2020 Juan marked it as dnf

Shelves: lgbtq, young-adult

dnf @ page 177

I hit a point where I realized that despite being halfway through the book I did not care about anything that was happening and still could not tell the two main characters apart from one another.

Also, up till this point there has been no real mention of anything sapphic, and definitely no mention of the ace rep that I heard was also part of this book. That's not to say the rep isn't in there at all, as I'm sure it is, I just want to point out that if that's one of the main reason ...more

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Sep 24, 2019 mmmmmmmmmm rated it liked it

Shelves: sapphic, lesbian, trans, arcs

rep: sapphic ace mc, f/f romance, sapphic side character, trans side character

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Feb 04, 2020 Francesca ❆ rated it liked it

Thank you so much Sourcebooks Fire for providing me a free copy through Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review.

2.5 stars
A fast paced fantasy about girls changing the world, not afraid to follow their dreams, and fighting against a system of exploitation.

CHARACTERS:
The story is divided in a dual POV system with a constant switch between the characters: on one side we have the privileged, rebellious Emilie, who wants to break the rules of society and become a physician; on the other we have the Thank you so much Sourcebooks Fire for providing me a free copy through Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review.

2.5 stars
A fast paced fantasy about girls changing the world, not afraid to follow their dreams, and fighting against a system of exploitation.

CHARACTERS:
The story is divided in a dual POV system with a constant switch between the characters: on one side we have the privileged, rebellious Emilie, who wants to break the rules of society and become a physician; on the other we have the overworked, disadvantaged Annette, who dreams of getting the chance to study magic and change her life conditions.
Each character is surrounded by a bunch of secondary characters that act as support cast and source of friendship, love and conflict; sadly both main and secondary characters felt not enough developed at times and it broke the immersion quite a lot.
I do want to say that I liked the myriad of different relationships of love, friendship, contempt, hate etc...portrayed in the story and the character growth of (mostly) Emilie and Annette.

WORLD-BUILDING AND PLOT:
The world building is a mock-up of revolutionary France with a simple yet intriguing magical system: magic usage is gender based on gender (males have a more physical role in society while females take care of the spiritual part of it) and cross over is strictly forbidden and magic consumes the body at different pace depending on which kind of magic the performer uses.....that said, I still felt like some things were glossed over/not well explained which created some rather annoying inconsistencies.
The plot was had some problems: it swung from dull moments to high speed pacing which resulted in some confusion and lots of going back and rereading bits here and there.

WRITING:
The writing was well done, with interesting dialogues and approachable language.
The pacing didn’t feel very smooth especially towards the end where it takes off like a missile and losing the thread meant getting lost in a glass of water and getting immensely confused.

FINAL NOTE:
If you are looking for a fast paced stand alone fantasy with lots of representation and teens switching lives, attending magical schools, and changing the world....this book is right up your alley. ...more

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Feb 28, 2020 Meaghan rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020

I'm not really sure how to explain how I feel about this book. Like I both enjoyed the world, magic, and plot, yet never actually felt attached to it.

Admittedly, I had to switch to the audiobook early on because the writing felt too disjointed/weird to me at first (I had to reread some sentences multiple times because they just read oddly), and listening made all those issues go away. However, it was so much harder to keep track of what was going on/all the characters, so that also affected my ...more

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Jan 01, 2020 Greyson | Use Your Words rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2020-owned-book-read, genre-fantasy-magical-realism, rep-1-lgbtqiap, read-2020

I truly do not know how to review this book.

I read it 3 months ago and I don't think I can form words that appropriately explain this book.

Let's get the not so good parts out of the way first.

It was kinda confusing. I love a good dual POV narrative! And we get two, both from girls fighting in a resistance??? I'll eat that shit up any day of the week.

The problem that I had was that the timeline between the POVs didn't always seem to sync up and I did get confused often because of this. Normal ...more

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Originally from Arkansas, Linsey has previously worked as a crime lab intern, neuroscience lab assistant, and pharmacy technician. She now holds an MFA in fiction and is the author of the Mask of Shadows duology, Belle Révolte, and The Game. She can be found writing about science and magic anywhere there is coffee.

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“Some people aren't even worth your time. Don't bother arguing with the ones who don't see you as a person.” — 3 likes

“You are not the people who love you or the people you've lost. They're just parts of you. You are so much more than you've been led to believe.” — 1 likes

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